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"In this project, David Tavárez examines the largest and least-known corpus of Indigenous religious texts in the colonial Americas. These were detailed calendars and cosmologies based on pre-Columbian Zapotec cultural norms written by Indigenous scholars for other natives. These calendars, based on traditional Zapotec concepts of time and space, were to be used to plan marriages, burials, and healing treatments, and, most importantly, to provide a detailed schedule for offerings and sacrifices to be given to human ancestors and gods. Using his extensive knowledge of Zapotec, Nahua, and Spanish, Tavárez is attempting the first full interpretation and historical analysis of the collection alongside historical papers in Mexican archives to understand this period of change and instability"--

Religious calendars. --- zapotec, Mesoamerican, Mesoamerica, cosmology, Mesoamerican history, Nahuatl, pre-Columbian.

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Entre la conquista y la independencia de la América hispánica se extiende, durante tres siglos, un periodo decisivo para la formación -y la comprensión- de la América contemporánea. Después del choque inicial de civilizaciones se organiza, en medio de dificultades y contingencias, una comunidad compleja cuyas conductas familiares, religiosas y políticas oscilan entre la adaptación y la resistencia al nuevo orden colonial. Los cuatro capítulos que componen la obra ofrecen diversas apreciaciones del posicionamiento de las élites sociales amerindias e hispanoamericanas con relación a la estructura estatal española, en sus componentes metropolitano y colonial. Según nuestros autores, las prácticas de los "vencedores" o los comportamientos de los "vencidos" son reflejo de las tensiones sociopolíticas que atraviesan la nueva sociedad mestiza en gestación.

History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- Guatemala --- Mexico --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- History --- época colonial --- sociedad mestiza --- Mesoamérica --- élites sociales --- mestizaje

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Indians of Central America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- History. --- Guatemala --- History

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In Painted Pottery of Honduras Rosemary Joyce describes the development of the Ulua Polychrome tradition in Honduras from the fifth to sixteenth centuries AD, and critically examines archaeological research on these objects that began in the nineteenth century. Previously treated as a marginal product of Classic Maya society, this study shows that Ulua Polychromes are products of the ritual and social life of indigenous societies composed of wealthy farmers engaged in long-distance relationships extending from Costa Rica to Mexico. Drawing on concepts of agency, practice, and intention, Rosemary Joyce takes a potter's perspective and develops a generational workshop model for innovation by communities of practice who made and used painted pottery in serving meals and locally meaningful ritual practices.

Indian pottery --- Indians of Central America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Indians --- Pottery, Indian --- Pottery --- Antiquities. --- Honduras

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Indians of Mexico --- Indians of Mexico. --- Civilization --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Industries