2014 latin america catalog

8/13/2019 2014 Latin America Catalog

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Latin AmericaU N I V E R S I T Y O F O K L A H O M A P R E S S


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For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published

award-winning books about Latin America and we are proud to bring

to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from theUniversity of Oklahoma Press as well as books distributed for the Denver

Art Museum and the Gilcrease Museum.

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Latin America

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to the University of

Oklahoma Press, the University Press of Florida, and the University of Texas Press.

This grant was made to encourage publication and digital scholarship for first-time

authors working in Latin American and Caribbean arts and culture. This initiative will

provide opportunities for a new generation of young scholars whose works meet high

academic standards but might have been deemed too expensive for publication. Thiscollaboration will utilize the existing strengths and capacity of each of these publishers

to solicit, publish, and market twenty-seven books.

If you have a manuscript or a publication proposal and are a first-time author with

an interest in publishing your Latin American studies book with the University of

Oklahoma Press, please contact Alessandra Jacobi Tamulevich at [email protected].


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Indians and the Political Economy of ColonialCentral America, 16701810By Robert W. Patch

$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4400-9 272 pages

The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial

Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse,forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patchs

even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancasthe commercial dealings

between regional magistrates and the people under their jurisdictionreveals

the inner workings of colonialism in Central America.

Strange Lands and Different PeoplesSpaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

By W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz

With Wendy Kramer and William R. Swezey

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4390-3 288 pages

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya

cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these rich and strange

lands, as Hernn Corts called them, and their many different peoples was

brutal and prolonged.Strange Lands and Different Peoplesexamines the myriad

ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the

changes that took place in native life because of it.

The Mixtecs of OaxacaAncient Times to the Present

By Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4381-1 328 pages

In this comprehensive survey, Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky

both preeminent scholars of Mixtec civilizationsynthesize a wealth of

archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to trace the emergence and

evolution of Mixtec civilization from the time of earliest human occupation to

the present.

Politics of the Maya Court

Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic PeriodBy Sarah E. Jackson

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4341-5 248 pages

Politics of the Maya Courtuses hieroglyphic and iconographic evidence to explore

the composition and social significance of royal courts in the Late Classic

period (A.D. 600900), with a special emphasis on the role of courtly elites.

Translating Maya HieroglyphsBy Scott A. J. Johnson

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4333-0 320 pages

Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning

students, but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and

comprehensible system in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook.

Pre-Columbian Art & ArchaeologyEssays in Honor of Frederick R. Mayer

By Margaret Young-Sanchez

$25.00s Paper 978-0-8061-4381-3 144 pages

Distributed for the Denver Art Museum

Symposia presented at the Denver Art Museum in 2002 and 2007 focused,respectively, on pre-Columbian art in the museum collection and the art and

archaeology of ancient Costa Rica. Edited by Denver Art Museum curator

Margaret Young-Snchez, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together newly

revised and expanded symposium papers from pre-Columbian scholars, while

paying tribute to the legacy of Denver philanthropist Frederick R. Mayera

generous supporter of archaeological and art historical research, scientific

analysis, and scholarly publication.


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Crisis of Governance in Maya GuatemalaIndigenous Responses to a Failing State

Edited by John P. Hawkins, James H. McDonald,

and Walter Randolph Adams

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4345-3 280 pages

Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemalaexplores the causes and consequences of

governmental failure by focusing on life in two Kiche Maya communities in

the countrys western highlands.

The New Catalog of Maya HieroglyphsVolume One: The Classic Period Inscriptions

By Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper

$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4381-6 394 pages

TheNew Catalogis a guide to all known hieroglyphic symbols of Classic Maya

script, presenting the findings of the most reliable scholars in Maya epigraphy.

An essential resource for students of Maya texts, it is also accessible to

nonspecialists with an interest in Mesoamerica.

Shamans, Witches, and Maya PriestsNative Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala

By Krystyna Deuss

$55.00s Paper 978-0-8061-4381-7 334 pages

Distributed for Guatemalan Maya Centre

Enlivened with 102 photographs and 50 figures and maps, Shamans, Witches,and Maya Priestsexplores the old ways that still prevail in the Qanjobal,

Akatek, and Chuj communities of the remote northwestern Cuchumatn

Mountains. Krystyna Deuss provides vivid descriptions and images of the

traditional rites and rituals she witnessed during fifteen years of fieldwork.

These sacred moments include blood sacrifices for the good of the community

and private shamanic ritualsas well as black magic.

At the CrossroadsThe Arts of Spanish America and Early Global Trade, 14921850

Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka$39.95s Cloth 978-0-914738-80-0 176 pages

Distributed For Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2010, co-hosted by the

Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art

and by the Asian Art Department William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Endowment,

to examine the impact of early modern globalization on the arts of Spanish

America. This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers

presented at the symposium.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Indian ConquistadorsIndigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica

Edited by Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3854-1 368 pages

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4325-5 368 pages

The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the

invading Spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population.

Indian Conquistadorsexamines the role of native peoples as active agents in the

Conquest and the overwhelming importance of native allies in both conquestand colonial control.


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NEW IN PAPERBACKIndian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 7501750By William B. Carter

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4302-6 312 pages

When considering the history of the southwest, scholars have typically viewedapaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on

Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. Carter now offers a multilayered

reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to

show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created

alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement.

Mesoamerican MemoryEnduring Systems of Remembrance

Edited by Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood

$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4235-7 328 pages

Both before and after the Spanish conquest, indigenous scribes recorded

their communities histories and belief systems, as well as the events of the

conquest and its effects and aftermath. Today, the descendants of those

native historians still remember their ancestors stories. Amos Megged and

Stephanie Wood have gathered the latest scholarship to compare these

various memories and explore how they were preserved and altered over time.

Maya ExodusIndigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas

By Heidi Moksnes

$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4292-0 280 pages

Maya Exodusoffers a richly detailed account of how a group of indigenous

people has adopted a global language of human rights to press claims for

social change and social justice. Anthropologist Heidi Moksnes describes

how Catholic Maya in the municipality of Chenalh in Chiapas, Mexico, have

changed their position vis--vis the Mexican statefrom being loyal clients

dependent on a patron, to being citizens who have rightsas a means of

exodus from poverty.

NEW IN PAPERBACKNational Narratives in MexicoA History

By Enrique Florescano Translated by Nancy Hancock

Drawings by Ral Velzquez

$65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3701-8 448 pages

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4318-7 448 pages

If history is written by the victors, then as the rulers of a nation change, so too

does its history. InNational Narratives in Mexico,Enrique Florescano examines

each historical vision of Mexico as it was interpreted in its own time, revealing

the influences of national or ethnic identity, culture, and evolving concepts of

history and national memory.

NEW IN PAPERBACKTranscending ConquestNahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico

By Stephanie Wood

$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3486-4 228 pages

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4303-3 228 pages

In Transcending Conquest, Stephanie Wood uses Nahuatl writings and

illustrations to reveal Nahua perspectives on Spanish colonial occupations

of the Western Hemisphere. Drawing on Mesoamerican peoples strong

tradition of pictorial record keeping, Wood examines multiple examples of

pictorial imagery to explore how native manuscripts depicted the European

invader and colonizer.


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Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, GuatemalaBy Megan E. ONeil

$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4257-9 328 pages

Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras

flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries c.e. In Engaging Ancient Maya

Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. ONeil offers new ways tounderstand the stelae, altars, and panels of the ancient city by exploring how

ancient Maya people interacted with them.

NEW IN PAPERBACKBernardino de SahagnFirst Anthropologist

By Miguel Len-Portilla

Translated by Mauricio J. Mixco

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4271-5 340 pages

Sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to detect the sickness of

idolatry, Bernardino de Sahagn (c. 14991590) instead became the first

anthropologist of the New World. This biography presents the life story of a

fascinating man who came to Mexico intent on changing the traditions and

cultures, but instead ended up working to preserve them.

NEW IN PAPERBACKThe Quich Mayas of UtatlnThe Evolution of a Highland Guatemala Kingdom

By Robert M. Carmack

$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4268-5 454 pages

Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, The

Quich Mayas of Utatlnoffers a full account of the Quichs, the most powerful

Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest.

Carmack re-creates the setting of this empire, and peoples it with the rulers,

priests, warriors, allies, and travelers who gave it life.

Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art MuseumBy Donna Pierce

$19.95s Paper 978-0-914738-78-7 106 pagesDistributed for the Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum counts among its greatest resources a world-

renowned Spanish Colonial collection rich in art from all over Latin America,

including more than 3,000 objects. This lavishly illustrated volume serves as a

primer to this stellar art collection, framing it within the historical context of

the early modern world and the first era of global trade.

Aztecs on StageReligious Theater in Colonial Mexico

Edited and translated by Louise M. Burkhart

Translated by Barry D. Sell and Stafford Poole

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4209-8 244 pages

Nahuatl drama, one of the most surprising results of the Catholic presence

in colonial Mexico, merges medieval European religious theater with the

language and performance traditions of the Aztec (Nahua) people of central

Mexico. Aztecs on Stage presents accessible English translations of six of these

seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Nahuatl plays. Louise M. Burkharts

engaging introduction places the plays in historical context.

C O N N E C T W I T H U S

F A C E B O O K . C O M / O U P R E S S T W I T T E R . C O M / O U P R E S S

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Daily Life in Colonial MexicoThe Journey of Friar Ilarione da Bergamo, 17611768By Friar Ilarione da Bergamo

Edited and translated by William J. Orr

Edited by Robert R. Miller

$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3234-1 256 pages

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4233-3 256 pages

In 1761 Ilarione da Bergamo, a Capuchin friar, journeyed to Mexico to gather

alms for foreign missions. After harrowing voyages across the Mediterranean

and Atlantic, he reached Mexico City in 1763. After his return to Italy, Ilarione

wrote an account of his journey. In this recently discovered manuscript,

published here for the first time in English, editors Robert Ryal Miller and

William J. Orr identify obscure references, translate Nahuatl words, amplify

details, and verify historical events. Daily Life in Colonial Mexicois a welcome

addition to the firsthand literature of New Spain.

After MoctezumaIndigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524-1730

By William F. Connell

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4175-6 352 pages

The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in

ruins. Conquistador Hernn Corts, following the citys surrender in 1521,

established a governing body to organize its reconstruction.After Moctezuma:

Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 15241730 reveals how

native self-government in former Tenochtitlan evolved over time as the city

and its population changed.

The Jar of Severed HandsBy Mark Santiago

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4177-0 264 pages

More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the

region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under

attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiagos gripping account of Spanish

efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issuesin the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico.

Dreaming with the AncestorsBlack Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico

By Shirley B. Mock

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4053-7 400 pages

Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and

scholarly attention, but womens roles have largely been absent from that

discussion. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the

role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a

culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native Americanand Mexican influences.

Pedro Moya de ContrerasCatholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 15711591 Second Edition

By Stafford Poole

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4171-8 352 pages

For a brief few years in the sixteenth century, Pedro Moya de Contreras

was the most powerful man in the New World. A church official and loyalroyalist, he came to Mexico in 1571 to establish the Inquisition and later

became archbishop and viceroy for the region. This new edition of Stafford

Pooles definitive portrait of Moya de Contreras, first published in 1971, now

offers an expanded understanding of this enigmatic figures influence on the

development of New Spain.


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Alphabet of the WorldSelected Works by Eugenio Montejo

Edited by Kirk Nesset

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4148-0 256 pages

Eugenio Montejo was one of the most significant Latin American poets andessayists of the past half century. All of the selections are presented here in

the original Spanish, with translations in English by prize-winning writer and

poet, Kirk Nesset.

A Perfect GibraltarThe Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846

By Christopher D. Dishman

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4140-4 344 pages

For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in

the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known

for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth

centurys most gruesome battlefields. Chris D. Dishman conveys in a vivid

narrative the intensity and drama of the Battle of Monterrey, which marked

the first time U.S. troops engaged in prolonged urban combat.

Framing the SacredThe Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico

By Eleanor Wake

$65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4033-9 368 pages

Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented

the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they?

Building on recent research that questions the cultural conquest of

Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also

reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them.

Bonfires of CultureFranciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in

Early Mexico, 15241540

By Patricia L. Don$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4049-0 280 pages

In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the

Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now

investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential

episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation

of an early period that has remained too long understudied.

History of the Indies of New SpainBy Fray D. Duran

$39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4107-7 642 pages

Durans History of the Indians of New Spainis a vivid evocation of the Aztec

world before the Spanish conquest. Based on a Nahuatl chronicle now lost

and on interviews with living Aztec informants, Durans History describes

the intrigues and court life of the elite. Duran chronicles daily life in times of

war and in times of flood and drought, when people sold their children for a

handful of corn.

New Catalog of Maya Heiroglyphs

Volume 2: The Codical TextsBy Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail

$65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4071-1 320 pages

This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic

Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle

Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden,

Madrid, and Paris codices, 40 percent of which are unique to these

painted manuscripts, and discuss current and past interpretations of these

graphemes.


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MarajAncient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon

By Margaret Young-Snchez and Denise P. Schaan

$25.00s Paper 978-0-914738-73-2 88 pages

Distributed for the Denver Art MuseumThe Amazon Basin is now recognized as a cradle of cultural and technological

innovation in the ancient Americas. Lavishly illustrated, this volume presents

ceramics from the Denver Art Museum, Barbier-Mueller Museums of Geneva

and Barcelona, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and

Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and private collections.

The Arts of South America, 14921850By Donna Pierce

$39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-9976-4 224 pages


The Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art

Museum held a symposium in 2008 to examine the arts of South America during

the culturally complex period of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism in the early

modern era. Specialists in the arts and history of Latin America traveled from

Venezuela, Spain, Portugal, and the United States to present recent research.

The topics ranged from architecture, painting, and sculpture to furniture and

the decorative arts. Edited by Denver Art Museum curator Donna Pierce, this

volume presents revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the

symposium.

Asia and Spanish AmericaTrans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural Exchange, 15001850By Ronald Otsuka

Edited by Donna Pierce

$39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-9973-3 208 pages


The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2006 to examine a little-known

aspect of globalization in the early modern era. Specialists in the arts and

history of Asia and Latin America came from Europe, Asia, and the Americas topresent recent research on connections between the two areas. Edited by Denver

Art Museum curators Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka, this volume presents

revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the symposium.

Guide to Documentary Sourcesfor Andean Studies, Edited by Joanne PillsburyWith written contributions by 122 scholars from nineteen countries and amply illustrated with

drawings, engravings, photographs, and maps, the Guideoffers new perspectives on key works

and reflects substantial changes in indigenous Andean historical and cultural studies of the

past fifty years. The first volume contains twenty-nine essays about the origin and nature of the

sources, focusing on recent research and interpretations. Volumes 2 and 3 list specific authors

alphabetically and discuss their texts. The entries contain such information as biographical data,

locations of manuscripts, publication history, translations, and references to secondary literature.

3-Volume Set: $195.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-9963-4 1,296 pages


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To Capture the SunGold of Ancient Panama

Contributions by Richard G. Cooke. Nicholas J. Saunders, John W. Hoopes,

and Jeffrey Quilter

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-9819799-0-8 400 pages

$24.95s Paper 978-0-9819799-1-5 400 pagesDistributed for the Gilcrease Museum

More than a beautifully illustrated exhibit catalogue, this volume includes

essays by leading scholars who use the Gilcrease collection to discuss the rise

of metallurgy in the Western Hemisphere, the symbolic significance of gold

in Gran Cocl culture, and the influence of Pre-Columbian gold on world

economies.

Juan de OvandoGoverning the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II

By Stafford Poole

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4238-8 304 pages

Philip II is a fascinating and enigmatic figure in Spanish history, but it was

his letradosprofessional bureaucrats and ministers trained in lawwho

made his vast castilian empire possible. Stafford Pooles biography of Juan

de Ovando provides an intimate view of the day-to-day influence letrados

wielded over the Spanish colonial machine.

Tiwanaku

Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art MuseumBy Margaret Young-Snchez

$45.00s Paper 978-0-8061-9972-6 264 pages


In 2005, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium in conjunction with the

exhibition Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca. Bringing together current research on

Pucara, Tiwanaku, Wari, and Inca art and archaeology, this volume will be an

important resource for scholars and enthusiasts of ancient South America.

Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator DeitiesBy Karen Bassie-Sweet$50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3957-9 384 pages

Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities is a detailed ethnohistorical

analysis of Maya religion, cosmology, and ritual practice that convincingly

links mythology to the land. A comprehensive treatment of Maya religion,

it provides an essential resource for scholars and will fascinate any reader

captivated by these ancient beliefs.

Volume I

$80.00s Cloth978-0-8061-3817-6

464 pages

Volume II

$80.00s Cloth978-0-8061-3820-6

384 pages

Volume III

$80.00s Cloth978-0-8061-3821-3

448 pages


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Feeding ChilapaThe Birth, Life, and Death of a Mexican Region

By Chris Kyle

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3920-3 288 pages

$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3921-0 288 pages

Feeding Chilapa traces the emergence of Chilapa as a textile center in the late

eighteenth century, the reorganization of the citys hinterland in the mid-

nineteenth century, and the ultimate dissolution of the region in the mid-

twentieth century. Kyle offers a new perspective on the immigration debate,

exploring the factors that lead rural citizens to leave economically depressed

regions for larger Mexican cities, border industries, or the United States.

Health Care in Maya GuatemalaConfronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country

Edited by Walter Randolph Adams and John P. Hawkins$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3859-6 288 pages

This book examines medical systems and institutions in three Kiche Maya

communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and

the Guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural

understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines

the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.

Roads to Change in Maya GuatemalaA Field School Approach to Understanding the Kiche

By John P. Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3708-7 240 pages

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3730-8 240 pages

Between 1995 and 1997, three groups of college students each spent two

months in Kiche Maya villages in Guatemala. Led by Professors John P.

Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams, they participated in an ongoing field

school designed to foster undergraduate research and documentation of

Kiche Maya culture in Guatemala.

Volume 2

$55.00s Cloth

978-0-8061-3794-0

288 pages

Volume 3

$55.00s Cloth

978-0-8061-3878-7

432 pages

Volume 4

$49.95s Cloth

978-0-8061-4010-0

368 pages

Edited by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart


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Popol VuhThe Sacred Book of the Maya

Translation by Allen J. Christenson

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3839-8 327 pages

The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survivedthe Spanish conquest. It is also one of the worlds great creation accounts,

comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis. Based on ten years of research

by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with extensive notes is

uniquely faithful to the original language. Retaining the poetic style of the original

text, the translation is also remarkably accessible to English readers.

Popol VuhLiteral Poetic Version Translation and Transcription

By Allen J. Christenson

$37.50s Paper 978-0-8061-3841-1 320 pages

This second volume provides a literal, line-by-line English translation of

the Popol Vuh,capturing the beauty, subtlety, and high poetic language

characteristic of Kiche-Maya sacred writings. By arranging the work

according to its poetic structure, Christenson preserves the poems original

phraseology and grammar, allowing subtle nuances of meaning to emerge.

Women in Ancient AmericaBy Karen Olsen Bruhns, Karen E. Stothert

$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3169-6 352 pages

This first comprehensive work on women in precolumbian American cultures

describes gender roles and relationships in North, Central, and South America

from 12,000 B.C.to the 1500sA.D.Utilizing many key archaeological works,

Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert redress some of the long-standing

male bias in writing about ancient Native American lifeways.

Mexico and the Spanish ConquestSecond Edition

By Ross Hassig

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3793-3 288 pagesWhat role did indigenous peoples play in the Spanish conquest of Mexico?

Ross Hassig explores this question in Mexico and the Spanish Conquestby

incorporating primary accounts from the Indians of Mexico and revisiting the

events of the conquest against the backdrop of the Aztec empire, the culture

and politics of Mesoamerica, and the military dynamics of both sides.

Prehistoric MesoamericaThird Edition

By Richard E. W. Adams

$32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3702-5 544 pages

This up-to-date overview of Mesoamerican cultures provides an introduction

to Mesoamerican studies, a brief geographic sketch of the region, and a

summary of the major features of its civilizations. Adams follows with a

detailed examination of each period of Mesoamerican cultural history, from

early prehistoric times through the rise and fall of various city-states to the

ascendancy and ultimate fall of the Aztec Empire.


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Mexicos Indigenous PastBy Alfredo Lopez Austin and Leonardo Lopez Lujan

Translated by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano

$39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3214-3 368 pages

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3723-0 368 pages

This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico,

beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European

occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and

ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of

Mexicos precolonial past.

Historical Atlas of Central AmericaBy Carolyn Hall and Hctor Prez Brignoli

$99.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3037-8 336 pages

$34.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3038-5 336 pages

Drawing on more than fifty combined years of research and teaching in

Central America, Carolyn Hall and Hctor Prez Brignoli provide a new

interpretation and an innovative synthesis of the regions history and culture

in the Historical Atlas of Central America.

TlacuilolliStyle and Contents of the Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts

with a Catalog of the Borgia Group

By Karl Anton Nowotny

Translated By George A. Everett and Edward B. Sisson

$75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3653-0 384 pages

Appearing for the first time in English, Karl Anton Nowotnys Tlacuilolli

is a classic work of Mesoamerican scholarship. A concise analysis of the

pre-Columbian Borgia Group of manuscripts, it is the only synthetic

interpretation of divinatory and ritual codices from Mexico.

Visions of ParadisePrimordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca

By Robert Haskett$49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3586-1 352 pages

Cuernavaca, often called the Mexican Paradise or Land of Eternal Spring,

has a deep, rich history. Formerly called Cuauhnahuac, the city was renamed

by the Spanish in the sixteenth century when Hernando Corts built his stone

palacio on its main square and thrust Cuernavaca into the colonial age. In Visions

of Paradise, Robert Haskett presents a history of Cuernavaca, basing his account

on an important body of late-seventeenth-century historical records known as

primordial titles, written by still unknown members of the Native population.

Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 15001700By Susan Kellogg

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3685-1 320 pages

In this book, Susan Kellogg explains how Spanish law served as an instrument

of cultural transformation and adaptation in the lives of Nahuatl-speaking

peoples during the years 15001700the first two centuries of colonial

rule. She shows that law had an impact on numerous aspects of daily life,

especially gender relations, patterns of property ownership and transmission,

and family and kinship organization.

In Place of Gods and KingsAuthorship and Identity in the Relacin de Michoacn

By Cynthia L. Stone

$54.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3311-9 328 pages

In Place of Gods and Kingspresents a new reading of an important manuscript

that has long been considered the foremost colonial-era source for

information related to the indigenous inhabitants of the Mexican state of

Michoacn.


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Introduction to Classical NahuatlRevised Edition

By J. Richard Andrews

$80.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3452-9 704 pages

$45.00s Workbook 978-0-8061-3453-6For many years, J. Richard Andrewss Introduction to Classical Nahuatlhas

been the standard reference work for scholars and students of Nahuatl,

the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central

Mexico. Andrewss work was the first book to make Nahuatl accessible as a

coherent language system and to recognize such crucial linguistic features as

vowel length and the glottal stop. Accompanied by a workbook, this long-

awaited new edition is extensively revised, enlarged, and updated with the

latest research.

Mesoamerican ElitesAn Archaeological Assessment

By Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase

$25.96 Paper 978-0-8061-3542-7 390 pages

In Mesoamerican Elites, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase present a wide

variety of essays, all of which evaluate current archaeological knowledge of the

privileged ruling classes, or elites, in Mesoamerica. Some experts argue that

Mesoamerican societies consisted only of elites and peasants, while others

argue that considerable intermediate social levels also existed. In light of such

diverse opinions, this volume addresses problems in the interpretation ofarchaeological evidence regarding ancient Mesoamerican social structure.

Tatiana ProskouriakoffInterpreting the Ancient Maya

By Char Solomon

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3445-1 240 pages

Born in Siberia during a turbulent period in Russian history, Tatiana

Proskouriakoff came to America during World War I. Proskouriakoff excelled

in art and completed a degree in architecture. She entered the field of

Mesoamerican archaeology in the mid-1930s as a draftsperson and artist fora University of Pennsylvania archaeological project in the Petn rainforest of

Guatemala. By the end of her life, she had become one of the premier scholars

of Mayan civilization.

From Peasant Struggles to Indian ResistanceThe Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century

By Amalia Pallares

$44.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3459-8 288 pages

Drawing on extensive research in her native Ecuador, Amalia Pallares examines

the South American Indian movement in the Ecuadorian Andes and explains

its shift from class politics to racial politics in the late twentieth century.

Pallares uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the reasons why

indigenous Ecuadorians have bypassed their shared class status with other

peasant groups and movements in favor of a political identity based on their

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Four CreationsAn Epic Story of the Chiapas Mayas

By Gary H. Gossen

$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3331-7 896 pages

Four Creationsis a collection of seventy-four stories told to Gary H. Gossen byTzotzil Maya storytellers in San Juan Chamula, Mexico. Spanning four cycles

of creations, destructions, and restorations from the dawn of cosmic order

to the present era, this epic history reveals a distinctly Maya vision of the

universe, grand in scope yet leavened with local humor, irony, and the Tzotzil

narrators own critical commentaries.

Alfred Maudslay and the MayaA Biography

By Ian Graham

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3450-5 336 pages

In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay

(1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his

pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins.

Maudslay played a crucial role in exploring and documenting the monuments

and architecture of the ancient Maya ruins at Palengue Copn, Chichn Itz,

and other sites previously unknown. His photographs and plaster casts have

proven to be invaluable in the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics. Personal

resources allowed him to undertake fieldwork at a time when no institution

provided such support.

An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central AmericaBelize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador

By Joyce Kelly

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2861-0 352 pages

Tikal, Copn, Uaxactn - ancient Maya cities whose names conjure up

romance, mystery, and science all at once. Joyce Kellys clear descriptions and

captivating photographs of these and many other sites will make you want

to pack your bags and head for Central America. And when you arrive, thisguidebook will not let you down.

Secret Judgments of GodOld World Disease in Colonial Spanish America

By Noble David Cook and W. George Lovell

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3377-5 312 pages

In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World

caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native

American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such

as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had noimmunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and

anthropologists, Secret Judgments of Goddiscusses how diseases with Old

World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish

America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the

ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.

Pancho Villas Revolution by HeadlinesBy Mark Cronlund Anderson

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3375-1 320 pages

This colorful history of Pancho Villa as a propagandist tells how the legendary

guerrilla waged war not only on the battlefield but also in the mass media, where

he promoted his foreign policy of friendship with the United States in a bid to

gain American backing for the Mexican Revolution between 1913 and 1915.


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The Decipherment of Ancient Maya WritingBy Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and David Stuart

$65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3204-4 576 pages

The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writingis an important story of intellectual

discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to the interpreting ofEgyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of cuneiform. This book provides a

history of the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs. Introductory essays offer

the historical context and describe the personalities and theories of the many

authors who contributed to the understanding of these ancient glyphs.

Conquest of the SierraSpaniards and Indians in Colonial Oaxaca

By John K. Chance

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3337-9 252 pages

Conquest of the Sierradepicts the colonial experience in the Sierra Zapoteca,

a remote mountain region of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Based on

unpublished and hitherto untapped archival sources, this book traces the

evolution of a unique regional colonial society.

The Real Contra WarHighlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua

By Timothy C. Brown

$32.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3252-5 352 pages

Relying on original documents, interviews with veterans, and other primarysources, Brown contradicts conventional wisdom about the Contras,

debunking most of what has been written about the movements leaders,

origins, aims, and foreign support.

[The Real Contra War] should be required reading for students of twentieth-

century Latin American revolutionary theory and contemporary history.

Ambassador Everett Ellis Briggs

Fifteen Poets of the Aztec WorldBy Miguel Len-Portilla

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3291-4 328 pagesIn this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl

poetry into English, Miguel Len-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking,

augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen

composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their

extant poems in Nahuatl and in English.

Picturing FaithA Facsimile Edition of the Pictographic Quechua

Catechism in the Huntington Free Library

By Barbara H. Jaye and William P. Mitchell$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-9949-8 76 pages

After the conquest of the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,

Roman Catholic clergy developed graphic catechisms to use for the

conversion of native inhabitants in Latin America. This book presents

and analyzes a mid-nineteenth century Andean pictographic catechism

produced for speakers of Quechua. A facsimile of the original pictographs

is accompanied by supporting text in English (translated from the original

Spanish) and Quechua.

The Inca WorldBy Laura Laurencich Minelli

$36.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3221-1 480 pages

The development of the Inca Empire was complex and often paradoxical.

This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archaeological research

and Spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many

questions and contradictions regarding the Inca Empire.


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The Covenants with Earth and RainExchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society

By John Monaghan

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3192-4 416 pages

In this book, John Monaghan explores the culture of the Mixtecs, today oneof the largest Native American groups in Mexico. Focusing on the community

of Santiago Nuyoo, located in the mountainous Mixteca Alta region, he

describes Nuyooteco marriage practices, gift exchange, kinship systems, land

tenure, cosmology, ritual, and feasting.

Indian Women of Early MexicoBy Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2960-0 496 pages

This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited

by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life

experiences of Indian women in preconquest colonial Mexico.

Aztec ArtBy Esther Pasztory

$36.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2536-7 512 pages

This is the first comprehensive book on Aztec art: eleven chapters illustrated

with seventy-five superb color plates and hundreds of photographs,

supplemented by maps and diagrams. Temple architecture, majestic stone

sculpture carved without metal tools, featherwork and turquoise mosaic,painted books, and sculptures in terra cotta and rare stones all are here.

Pasztory has placed these major works of Pre-Columbian art in a historical

context, relating them to the reigns of individual rulers, events in Aztec

history, and the needs of different social groups from the elite to the

farmer. She focuses on the little-known aspects of the aesthetics, poetry and

humanity of the Aztecs.





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