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Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions
The study of indigenous religions has become an important academic field, particularly since the religious practices of indigenous peoples are being transformed by forces of globalization and transcontinental migration. This book will further our understanding of indigenous religions by first considering key methodological issues related to defining and contextualizing the religious practices of indigenous societies, both historically and in socio-cultural situations. Two further sections of the book analyse cases derived from European contexts, which are often overlooked in discussion of indigenous religions, and in two traditional areas of study: South America and Africa.
Bound Lives
Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta, and in doing so, constructed these racial categories. Royal and viceregal authorities separated "Indians" from "blacks" by defining each to specific labor demands. Casta categories did the work of race, yet, not all casta categories did the same type of work since Andeans, Africans, and their descendants were bound by their locations within colonialism and slavery. The secular colonial legal system clearly favored indigenous populations. Andeans were afforded greater protections as "threatened" na...
Becoming Maya
According to Gabbert, class has served as a self-defining category as much as ethnicity in Yucatan, and although we think of caste wars as struggles between Mayas and Mexicans, he shows that each side possessed a sufficiently complex ethnic makeup to rule out such pat observations.".
Bridging the Gaps
Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico does just that: it bridges the gap between archaeology and history of the Precolumbian, Colonial, and Republican eras of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a cultural area encompassing several of the longest-enduring literate societies in the world. Fourteen case studies from an interdisciplinary group of archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and art historians consciously compare and contrast changes and continuities in material culture before and after the Spanish conquest, in Prehispanic and Colonial documents, and in oral traditions rooted in the present but reflecting upon the deep past. Contributors consider...
Contextualización del reconocimiento arqueológico de Eduard Seler en la Región de Chaculá, Departamento de Huehuetenango, Guatemala
This study re-examines and contextualises Eduard Seler's investigations in the Chaculá-Region, Guatemala. A new study of the Ethnological Museum Berlin's materials from the region, including previously undocumented ceramics, reveals a chronology suggesting that the major settlements were occupied from the Late Classic to the Early Postclassic.
Bäuerliche Alltagsstrategien in der belarussischen SSR (1921-1941)
Am konkreten Beispiel der ostlichen Belarus (Weiarussland) wird herausgestellt, was die Bauernfamilien vor und nach der Kollektivierung von Arbeitsorganisation, -teilung, -bewertung und -entlohnung, von Markt, Geld und Handel, von Traktoren und Handmuhlen, von Flurbereinigungen und neuen Siedlungen, von ihren Ehepartnern und von Kinderkrippen, von Auswanderung und Schmuggel hielten. Es wird untersucht, wie sich die Bauerinnen und Bauern unter einer zu Brutalitat bereiten Staatsmacht zwischen Subsistenz, Markt und Zwangsabgaben, zwischen offensiver Militanz und defensivem Verstecken, zwischen Solidaritat und Denunziation bewegten. Ausfuhrlich analysiert Siebert auch die hierzulande wenig bekannte allgemeine politische und wirtschaftliche Geschichte der Belarus in dieser Epoche. "Mit 'Bauerliche Alltagsstrategien' liegt eine grundliche und uberzeugende Studie vor, die eine wichtige Lucke bei der Rekonstruktion weiarussischer Geschichte der Zwischenkriegszeit schlieat." Jahrbucher fur die Geschichte Osteuropas "... an extremely valuable book" Acta Poloniae Historica . (Franz Steiner 1998)
3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands
3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory, and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya identity, political history, and warfare. The Maya lowlands of Guatemala, Belize, and southeast Mexico have witnessed human occupation for at least 11,000 years, and settled life reliant on agriculture began some 3,100 years ago. From the earliest times, Maya communities expressed their shifting identities through pottery, architecture, stone tools, and other items of material culture. Although it is tempting to think of the Maya as a single unif...
Der Anerkennungskonflikt bei den drei Geschlechtern der Binnizá
Bei den Binnizá, den isthmischen Zapoteken, handelt es sich um ein indigenes Volk im Süden Mexikos mit drei sozialen Geschlechtern – Frauen, Muxe’ und Männern. Sie sind eine moderne, urbane Kultur, die ihre eigenen auffallenden Traditionen bewahrt hat, was eine Reihe mythisierender Vorurteile generiert. Die Autorin dekonstruiert daher zunächst Genese und Funktion des Matriarchatsmythos. Dann geht sie auf die lebensgeschichtliche Entwicklung der spannungsreichen Beziehungen dieser drei Geschlechter anhand psychoanalytischer Intersubjektivitätstheorie ein. Das spezifische frühkindliche und ödipale Setting sowie eine informelle Initiation in der Adoleszenz, wie der Rapto – die manu...
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