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The central axiom of Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century is that the classroom functions as a site for research and collaboration: not only as a space that reflects the research of individual teacher-scholars, but as a generative site to put ideas, theories, and methodologies into play. Whereas transatlanticism has transformed research practices over the last decade, the present collection is concerned with exploring what this transformation looks like in the classroom, and how the classroom continues to shape research practices in the field. Contributors address issues such as how the traffic in ideas, people, and commodities between Europe, Africa, and the New World are considere...
The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spain’s most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego Velázquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes, radically question humankind’s sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning. In general, this study illuminates how Animal Studies can offer new perspectives to understanding Hispanism, giving readers a fresh approach to the historical, literary and artistic complexity of early modern Spain.
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the most comprehensive annual bibliography in Latin American Studies. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. Subject categories for the Social Sciences editions include anthropology; geography; government and politics; international relations; political economy; and sociology.
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 ...
The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico writ...
This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period.
El libro presenta los indicadores Arqueológicos de transformaciones culturales y demográficas del Clásico al Posclásico en las regiones de Zacatecas, Michoacán, el Bajío, el valle de Toluca, el valle de Tula, la cuenca de México y el valle de Puebla-Tlaxcala. Se trata de contribuciones complementarias entre sí, y que en cierto modo proponen una muy antigua dinámica de flujos y reflujos. Esperamos que este libro despeje algunas incógnitas y ofrezca al lector información novedosa sobre la compleja interacción del Epiclásico.
En este número se conjuntan 24 investigaciones basadas en conocimientos sólidos de interpretación iconográfica de artes y artesanías prehispánicas, así como del México colonial dirigidas específicamente al estudio de las condiciones culturales, las cuales permitirán seguir profundizando en el pensamiento mágico religioso y filosófico de esas épocas.
El propósito de esta obra es dar cuenta del desarrollo histórico de Coyoacán, de su vasto señorío desde los tiempos previos a la Conquista y de su extensa jurisdicción a lo largo de la época novohispana
Como sucede siempre cuándo una palabra, con sus escasas letras, parece albergar el amplio contenido de un proceso o de un fenómeno social, la noción de patrimonialización está en boga en México y en otros lugares del mundo. Se usa para nombrar una vasta gama de eventos que suceden en torno a expresiones, bienes culturales y naturales, personas o grupos humanos, cuando son valorados como patrimonio cultural y son empleados por un amplio espectro de actores, para una gran variedad de objetivos, siempre bajo la justificación de la necesidad de proteger y conservar aquello que se patrimonializa. Lo que no siempre es evidente es la definición conceptual de esa noción, ni los alcances y a...