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The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
Examining the long-lasting effects of European colonization on Mexican populations The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521. Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the response to European colonization, providing evidence for the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous change. Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican...
The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico
This volume celebrates the continuing impact of the most notable contributions from The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization by William T. Sanders, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Robert S. Santley. In 1979, this influential work synthesized the results of the Basin of Mexico survey projects and follow-up excavations at several sites, while providing theoretical and methodological lines of research in central Mexico and generally in Mesoamerica. More than four decades after that book’s publication, the fourteen contributions in this volume review and analyze its theoretical and methodological influence in light of recent research across disciplines. Among a ...
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces. These include shifting power dynamics and sociocultural transformations, tumultuous political regimes, the precarity of newly formed nation states, migration in search of refuge, and newly globalizing economies in the Yucatecan lowlands in the Late Colonial to Early National periods—the times when formal Spanish colonial rule was giving way to Yucatecan and Mexican neocolonial settler systems. The work takes a hemispheric approach to the historical and material analysis of colonialism, bridging the often disparate literatures on colonial...
Social Skins of the Head
The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject. Heads are sources of power that protect, impersonate, emulate sacred forces, distinguish, or acquire identity within the native world. The essays in this book examine these themes in a wide array of indigenous head treatments, including facial cosmetics and hair arrangements, permanent cranial vault and facial modifications, dental decorations, posthumous head processing, and head hunting. They offer new insights into native understandings of beauty, power, age, gender, and ethnicity. The contributors are experts from such diverse fields as skeletal biology, archaeology, aesthetics, forensics, taphonomy, and art history.
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico
An archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the years after the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology
This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica. This handbook provides systematic bioarchaeological coverage of skeletal research in the ancient Mesoamericas. It offers an integrated collection of engrained, bioculturally embedded explorations of relevant and timely topics, such as population shifts, lifestyles, body concepts, beauty, gender, health, foodways, social inequality, and violence. The additional treatment of new methodologies, local cultural settings, and theoretic frames rounds out the scope of this handbook. The selection of 36 chapter contributions invites readers to engage with the human condition in ancient and not-so-ancient Mesoamerica and beyond. The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology is addressed to an audience of Mesoamericanists, students, and researchers in bioarchaeology and related fields. It serves as a comprehensive reference for courses on Mesoamerica, bioarchaeology, and Native American studies.
Collision of Worlds
Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and initiated the globalized world we inhabit today. The violent clash that culminated in the Aztec-Spanish war of 1519-21 and the new colonial order it created were millennia in the making, entwining the previously independent cultural developments of both sides of the Atlantic. Collision of Worlds provides a deep history of this encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the...
Afinidades biológicas y contextos culturales en los antiguos teotihuacanos
Esta obra se centra en el registro de los senos frontales como herramienta para estudiar aspectos de la conformación biológica, además de la discusión sobre el tratamiento del cadáver y el culto a los ancestros entre los antiguos teotihuacanos. Se analizaron numerosos restos óseos humanos modificados y convertidos en diversos artefactos hallados en una gran variedad de contextos arqueológicos; una tercera parte de la muestra consistió en frontales y cráneos, los cuales parecen haber sido manipulados ex profeso.
Entramados en el Mezquital
Entramados en el Mezquital expresa resultados, conceptos y perspectivas de El Proyecto Valle del Mezquital de larga data y ambiciosos alcances, cuyo objetivo ha sido indagar en las interacciones dinámicas que han tenido lugar en los tres últimos milenios en el territorio del Valle del Mezquital. Refleja también la evolución del pensamiento arqueológico, así como los cambios en las ideas, los procedimientos y las hipótesis, resultado del diálogo entre diferentes enfoques y disciplinas.
Avances en antropología forense
La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxioco (UNAM) como institución educativa pública, tiene responsabilidades y compromisos sociales que cumple con la generación de proyectos que tengan como finalidad investigar, explicar y atender los problemas que afectan a la sociedad dentro de los más diversos ámbitos (LCF, 2020). La respuesta a la crisis forense que acontece en México fue la creación de la Licenciatura en Ciencia Forense (LCF) en 2013, para otorgar a sus egresados la posibilidad de conducir y participar en investigaciones especializadas de hechos presuntamente constitutivos de delitos y aportar pruebas científicas concluyentes, con apego a los derechos humanos, evitando el ca...
