Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8 : : Ethnology / / Robert Wauchope; ed. by Evon Z. Vogt.

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• VerfasserIn: Wauchope, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Beals, Ralph L.,; Blom, Frans,; Carrasco, Pedro,; Cline, Howard F.,; DeCicco, Gabriel,; Diebold, A. Richard,; Drucker, Susana,; Duby, Gertrude,; Escalante, Roberto,; Foster, George M.,; Fried, Jacob,; Grimes, Joseph E.,; Harvey, H. R.,; Hinshaw, Robert,; Hinton, Thomas B.,; Hoppe, Walter A.,; Kelly, Isabel,; Laughlin, Robert M.,; Madsen, William,; Manrique, Leonardo C.,; Medina, Andres,; Montagu, Roberta,; Nader, Laura,; Nash, Manning,; Olmsted, D. L.,; Owen, Roger C.,; Ravicz, Robert,; Reina, Ruben E.,; Riley, Carroll L.,; Rojas, Alfonso Villa,; Romney, A. Kimball,; Service, Elman R.,; Spicer, Edward H.,; Tax, Sol,; Villa Rojas, Alfonso,; Vogt, Evon Z.,; Wagley, Charles,; Weitlaner, Roberto J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Vogt, Evon Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (992 p.)

Ethnology comprises the seventh and eighth volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The editor of the Ethnology volumes is Evon Z. Vogt (1918–2004), Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University. These two books contain forty-three articles, all written by authorities in their field, on the ethnology of the Maya region, the southern Mexican highlands and adjacent regions, the central Mexican highlands, western Mexico, and northwest Mexico. Among the topics described for each group of Indians are the history of ethnological investigations, cultural and linguistic distributions, major postcontact events, population, subsistence systems and food patterns, settlement patterns, technology, economy, social organization, religion and world view, aesthetic and recreational patterns, life cycle and personality development, and annual cycle of life. The volumes are illustrated with photographs and drawings of contemporary and early historical scenes of native Indian life in Mexico and Central America. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- GENERAL EDITOR'S NOTE -- 1. Introduction -- SECTION I: THE MAYA -- 2. The Maya: Introduction -- 3.Guatemalan Highlands -- 4. The Maya of Northwestern Guatemala -- 5. The Maya of the Midwestern Highlands -- 6. Eastern Guatemalan Highlands: The Pokomames and Chorti -- 7. Chiapas Highlands -- 8. The Tzotzil -- 9. The Tzeltal -- 10. The Tojolabal -- 11. Maya Lowlands: The Chontal, Chol, and Kekchi -- 12. The Maya of Yucatan -- 13. The Lacandon -- 14. The Huastec -- SECTION II: SOUTHERN MEXICAN HIGHLANDS AND ADJACENT COASTAL REGIONS -- 15. Southern Mexican Highlands and Adjacent Coastal Regions -- 16. The Zapotec of Oaxaca -- 17. The Chatino -- 18. The Mixtec -- 19. The Trique of Oaxaca -- 20. The Amuzgo -- 21. The Cuícatec -- 22. The Mixe, Zoque, Popoluca -- 23. The Huave -- 24. The Popoloca -- 25. The Ichcatec -- 26. The Chocho -- 27. The Mazatec -- 28. The Chinantec -- 29. The Tequistlatec and Tlapanec -- 30. The Cuitlatec -- SECTION III: CENTRAL MEXICAN HIGHLANDS -- 31. Central Mexican Highlands: Introduction -- 32. The Nahua -- 33. The Totonac -- 34. The Otomi -- SECTION IV: WESTERN MEXICO -- 35. The Tarascans -- SECTION V: NORTHWEST MEXICO -- 36. Northwest Mexico: Introduction -- 37. The Huichol and Cora -- 38. The Southern Tepehuan and Tepecano -- 39. The Northern Tepehuan -- 40. The Yaqui and Mayo -- 41.The Tarahumara -- 42. Contemporary Ethnography of Baja California, Mexico -- 43. Remnant Tribes of Sonora: Opata, Pima, Papago, and Seri -- REFERENCES -- INDEX