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Property and Dispossession
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
Religion as a Human Capacity
Prepared in honor of E. Thomas Lawson, the essays in Religion as a Human Capacity represent diverse points of view in the study of religion today. Part I, “Theoretical Studies,” offers a broad range of cognitivist theoretical explorations, while Part II, “Studies in Religious Behavior,” presents cutting-edge applications of cognitive and other contemporary theories to religious data. This volume celebrates Lawson’s critical contributions to cognitive studies of religion and the degree to which his ultimate goal of scholarship as a search for truth is matched by those who have been his colleagues and been influenced by him. Religion as a Human Capacity will be of interest to all those concerned with theory and method in the academic study of religion
The Mexican Heartland
The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the forces that shaped global capitalism setting families and communities at the center of histories that transformed the world. Despite invasion, disease, and depopulation, Mexico's heartland communities held strong on the land, adapting to sustain and shape the dynamic silver capitalism so pivotal to Spain's empire and world trade for centuries after 1550. They joined in insurgencies that brought the collapse of silver and other key glo...
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Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that individuals on the move cross, inhabit, and leave behind. As conflicts over identities and space continue to erupt on a regular basis, this book reads the relationship between migration, identity, and space from a fresh and innovative perspective.
Frontiers of Colonialism
Featuring case studies of prehistoric and historic sites from Mesoamerica, China, the Philippines, the Pacific, Egypt, and elsewhere, Frontiers of Colonialism makes the surprising claim that colonialism can and should be compared across radically different time periods and locations. This volume challenges archaeologists to rethink the two major dichotomies of European versus non-European and prehistoric versus historic colonialism, which can be limiting, self-imposed boundaries. By bringing together contributors working in different regions and time periods, this volume examines the variability in colonial administrative strategies, local forms of resistance to cultural assimilation, hybridized cultural traditions, and other cross-cultural interactions within a global, comparative framework. Taken together these essays argue that crossing these frontiers of study will give anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians more power to recognize and explain the highly varied local impacts of colonialism.
Mapping Indigenous Land
Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, provinces, towns, and places; they made note of markers and ownership, and, at times, the extent and measurement of each field in a territory, along with the names of those who worked it. With their corresponding case files, these maps tell the stories of hundreds of natives and Spaniards who engaged in legal proceedings either to request land, to oppose a petition, or to negotiate its terms. Mapping In...
Ayotzingo: su historia y sus textos
El embarcadero de Ayotzingo cumplió un papel fundamental en la red de comunicaciones entre los pueblos lacustres de la Cuenca de México durante la época prehispánica y colonial. Su historia transita entre la disputa de los diferentes señoríos por su control, el auge comercial y su paulatino abandono. La interacción de los diferentes grupos e intereses dejó un conjunto de testimonios que permiten acercarnos a la cultura, historia y administración de la población.
Papeles de Ozumba (Atzompan).
Este libro se ocupa de recuperar y dar a conocer testimonios a partir de expedientes sobre los habitantes e instituciones, así como el conocimientos de sus tierras, parentesco, economía y en general la cotidianeidad del lugar, y como siempre la oralidad jugó un papel importante para la historia de Atzompan.
Cosmovisión y territorialidad en Mesoamérica
Esta investigación resalta la transformación del paisaje, el parentesco cultural, los grupos de linaje, la organización del territorio y el poder, como elementos fundamentales que sirvieron para ordenar y jerarquizar la vida de las sociedades mesoamericanas. El territorio y la cosmovisión como ejes de análisis evidencian que la forma de la organización social dependió de la manera más viable de procesar la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza. Reflexiona asimismo sobre el papel que jugaron las migraciones-peregrinaciones, las cuales pusieron en movimiento mensajes mítico-ancestrales. En la distribución del espacio, en la cerámica y los petrograbados se recreaban nuevos discursos llenos de imágenes plásticas que sirvieron para conformar un sistema visual unificado que reforzaba creencias y valores, así como una cosmovisión que normaba el comportamiento social. Esta cosmovisión se recreaba constantemente con el uso y la transformación del paisaje, en el cual se transmitía el proceso identitario.
