Encounter, Engagement, and Exchange : : How Native Populations of the Americas Transformed the World / / John B. Wright, editor.

• Superior document: Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials ; 53
• TeilnehmendeR: Wright, John B. 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: [New Orleans, La.] : : SALALM Secretariat, Latin American Library, Tulane University,, 2011.; ©2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English; Spanish
• Series: Latin American information series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource:; illustrations

Selected papers from the annual conference of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials.

Table of Contents

The first Americans / Alfred W. Crosby -- New data for the existence of plantain cultivation in coastal Brazil before 1492 / William Balee -- The "Berkeley School" and the great Mesoamerican demographic debate : un homenaje / Peter Stern -- El papel de la expedición botánica dirigida por Jose Celestino Mutis en el desarrollo de las bibiloteca especializadas en Columbia / Ketty Rodríguez Casillas -- The atrio cross and the communcation of Catholic doctrine in colonial Mexico / Derek Burdette -- Colonial literacy in Yucatec Maya : an authentic indigenous voice, or regional interethnic Lingua Franca? / Mark Lentz -- The art of economic manuscripts : Nahuatl writing in land and tribute documents from Central Mexico, 1540-1640 / Richard Conway -- French colonial perspectives of indigenous Latin America from the William J. Haggerty Collection of French colonial history / Martha Daisy Kelehan -- The lure of Kekchi : a German entrepreneur becomes a Mayanist / Guillermo Náñez-Falcón -- William E. Gates and the collection of Mesoamericana / Mark L. Grover -- Resources for the study of Indian languages in the Chicago area / Gabrielle M. Toth -- In amoxtli, in amoxcalli : el libro y la biblioteca prehispánica y su influencia en las bibliotecas coloniales en Mexico / Saúl Armendáriz Sánchez -- Las cartillas de alfabetización en lengua indígena : un intento por rescatar la riqueza lingüística de Mexico / Micaela Chávez Villa, Víctor J. Cid Carmona -- A new world of words : Amerindian language printing in the colonial world / Daniel J. Slive -- Interpreting the interpreters : worlds regarding one another / Frances Karttunen -- A late encounter : the unusual friendship between Percy Bigmouth and Martha Gene Neyland revealed through letters and stories during the 1940s / Paulita Aguilar, Claire-Lise Benaud -- Our Lady of Guadalupe : influence of the Mestizo icon on Mexico and the Catholic Church / Steven A. Kiczek -- The indigenous in Mariátegui / Richard Phillips -- The Esther Chávez Cano Collection : an archival record of violence against women in the U.S.-Mexico border and a tool for scholars and activists / Charles Stanford, Molly Molloy -- The pre-conquest aesthetic in modern Mexican silver / Penny C. Morrill -- Spanish pueblo revival architecture : blending native and new world design in New Mexico / Audra Bellmore -- No Maya libraries? Representation in and reception of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto / David C. Murray -- Native Americans as portrayed on the operatic stage : an introduction / Peter S. Bushnell -- Incidents of travel & research into the pre-Columbian past / Daniel Peters -- Searching for professional development opportunities and finding HAPIness / Marsha Forys -- You can do it all! But do you still want to? Identifying, creating, and enjoying professional development activities / Anne C. Barnhart -- Where we are, where may we be going, and what can we do there? / David Block -- Waquichastati? Aymara and Quechua in the cataloging of Bolivian materials / Tina Gross.