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Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems challenges the adequacy of Western academic views on what writing is and explores how they can be expanded by analyzing the sophisticated graphic communication systems found in Central Mesoamerica and Andean South America. By examining case studies from across the Americas, the authors pursue an enhanced understanding of Native American graphic communication systems and how the study of graphic expression can provide insight into ancient cultures and societies, expressed in indigenous words. Focusing on examples from Central Mexico and the Andes, the authors explore the overlap among writing, graphic expression, and orality in indigenous societies, in...
Prehistory of North America
A Prehistory of North America covers the ever-evolving understanding of the prehistory of North America, from its initial colonization, through the development of complex societies, and up to contact with Europeans. This book is the most up-to-date treatment of the prehistory of North America. In addition, it is organized by culture area in order to serve as a companion volume to “An Introduction to Native North America.” It also includes an extensive bibliography to facilitate research by both students and professionals.
Californio Portraits
First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the ...
La pintura mural prehispánica en México
El Seminario de Pintura Mural Prehispanica adscrito al Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas de la UNAM, ha terminado sus trabajos en torno a Bonampak, uno de los sitios mesoamericanos mas ricos en pintura mural y tesoro artistico ampliamente valorado a nivel mundial. En esta publicacion, que presentamos con gran satisfaccion, estan a la vista los resultados de un singular esfuerzo de documentacion fotografica y dibujistica. Como bien lo explica Beatriz de la Fuente, directora del proyecto, podremos apreciar en el primer tomo que constituye el catalogo, documentacion fotografica inedita, sobre todo, acercamientos a conjuntos y detalles, asíicomo vistas de las altas bovedas de Bonampak. En ...
Human origin sites and the World Heritage Convention in the Americas, volume I
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Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
Persistence of Native Identity at Mission Santa Catalina, Baja California, 1797-1840
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Retos y perspectivas en el estudio del arte rupestre en México
En este volumen se muestra el quehacer actual sobre la gráfica rupestre. El análisis y la óptica personal, en cada caso, son el cimiento para establecer líneas de investigación y tomar iniciativas en proyectos como los realizalos en 1990 y 2005 sobre el mismo tema y que sigan dinamizando estos estudios. Los conceptos vertidos permitirán tener datos sobre su desarrollo, establecer un diagnóstico y, con base en ellos, proponer futuras líneas de investigación.
De la antigua California al desierto de Atacama
El arte precolombino es tan rico y vasto aun a la distancia que no puede dejar de maravillarnos la sofisticación con la que los antiguos habitantes del continente representaron su cultura. De la Antigua California al Desierto de Atacama es un libro ambicioso que abarca las manifestaciones artísticas de todas las sociedades que florecieron en Mesoamérica, Centroamérica, El Caribe y Sudamérica. Reúne ensayos elaborados por especialistas que difunden las discusiones fundamentales sobre el pasado no solo artístico, sino histórico, arqueológico y geográfico de las culturas prehispánicas de nuestro continente; dentro de estas páginas puede comprenderse la manera en que diferentes sociedades plasmaron su realidad cotidiana, y asistimos a la muestra de un abanico riquísimo de culturas.
