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Oysters in the Land of Cacao
For decades, the Chontalpa region of Tabasco, Mexico, conjured images of the possible origins of the Itzá, who migrated, conquered, or otherwise influenced much of Mesoamerica. In Oysters in the Land of Cacao, archaeologist Bradley E. Ensor provides an important resource for Mesoamerican Gulf Coast archaeology by offering a new and detailed picture of the coastal sites vital to understanding regional interactions and social dynamics. This book synthesizes data from multiyear investigations at a coastal site complex in Tabasco—Islas de Los Cerros (ILC)—providing the first modern, systematic descriptions and analyses of material culture that challenge preconceptions while enabling new per...
Monumental Ambivalence
From ancient Maya cities in Mexico and Central America to the Taj Mahal in India, cultural heritage sites around the world are being drawn into the wave of privatization that has already swept through such economic sectors as telecommunications, transportation, and utilities. As nation-states decide they can no longer afford to maintain cultural properties—or find it economically advantageous not to do so in the globalizing economy—private actors are stepping in to excavate, conserve, interpret, and represent archaeological and historical sites. But what are the ramifications when a multinational corporation, or even an indigenous village, owns a piece of national patrimony which holds c...
Religiosidades e identidades colectivas en México
Este libro reúne diez propuestas, producto de la reflexión de especialistas en alguna parcela del amplio espectro de las religiosidades e identidades del antiguo régimen a las expresiones contemporáneas, pasando por el no menos enigmáticos siglo XIX. La primera parte se ocupa de explicar la configuración de algunas devociones novohispanas, entre ellas a la Inmaculada carmelitana, a Santiago apóstol, o una pléyade de santos venerados en capillas y oratorios de la ciudad de México. Los capítulos de la segunda parte del libro centran su interés en el examen de cómo lo sectores populares novohispanos y decimonónicos vivieron su religiosidad, recurriendo a la veneración de ciertas i...
Golfo
This is the first exhibition of such large scale dedicated to the prehispanic cultures of the Gulf of Mexico: olmecs, husteco, totonaca, zoque and nahua. Organized within the framework of the 80th anniversary of the INAH and the 500 years of the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the coast of what is today the states of Veracruz, Tabasco and Tamaulipas, the catalogue of the exhibition comprises research text that are the outcome of different fields: archaeological, linguistic, geographical, historical and ethnohistorical, among others and color reproductions of the more than 1000 archaeological pieces that include diverse manifestations like language, architecture, sculpture and ceramics.
