Download or read book La antropolog a americanista en la actualidad written by Rafael Girard and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Antropolog a americanista en la actualidad written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La antropolog a americanista en la actualidad written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motivos de la antropolog a americanista written by Miguel León Portilla and published by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuestiones como el desarrollo de las culturas ind genas; el florecer de sus instituciones; la conquista, evangelizaci n y dominaci n de las conciencias amerindias; la traslaci n del lenguaje oral al escrito, entre otros, fueron estudiados y discutidos en este trabajo de seminario, y se re nen aqu en b squeda de posibles rasgos identificadores de la antropolog a americanista, poseedora ya de larga y fecunda historia.
Download or read book Antropolog a americanista written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La antropolog a americanista en Espa a written by José Alcina Franch and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender in Pre Hispanic America written by Cecelia F. Klein and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Pre-Hispanic America offers rich opportunities for comprehending current trends and considering future directions in research. It is unique in that it puts social theory at the forefront of the discussion. The book has a special intellectual presence and contemporary relevance in its engagement with the social lives and constructs of its authors and readers alike. The consideration of the role of gender in our daily lives, including in our professions, becomes inescapable when reading this book. It is not simply a question of men's roles having been possibly overemphasized and overstudied to the detriment of women's. The fact that genders, as opposed to sexes, are socially constructed categories focuses our attention on the ways in which these and other social constructs have shaped our present understanding of the past and informed past peoples' understand of their present. In various articles in this book, the reader will not find unanimity in what is meant by "gender" or how to go about studying it. What will be found, however, is a collection of interesting, informed, thought-provoking, and often lively essays. It is hoped that this volume will mark a stage in an evolving study of this field and provoke new research in the future.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Olmecs written by David Hatcher Childress and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Cities author Childress takes us deep into Mexico and Central America in search of the mysterious Olmecs, North America’s early, advanced civilization. The Olmecs, now sometimes called Proto-Mayans, were not acknowledged to have existed as a civilization until an international archeological meeting in Mexico City in 1942. Now, the Olmecs are slowly being recognized as the Mother Culture of Mesoamerica, having invented writing, the ball game and the “Mayan” Calendar. But who were the Olmecs? Where did they come from? What happened to them? How sophisticated was their culture? How far back in time did it go? Why are many Olmec statues and figurines seemingly of foreign peoples such as Africans, Europeans and Chinese? Is there a link with Atlantis? In this heavily illustrated book, join Childress in search of the lost cities of the Olmecs! Chapters include: The Mystery of the Origin of the Olmecs; The Mystery of the Olmec Destruction; The Mystery of Quizuo; The Mystery of Transoceanic Trade; The Mystery of Cranial Deformation; The Mystery of Olmec Writing; more. Heavily illustrated, includes a color photo section.
Download or read book North American Indian Anthropology written by Raymond J. DeMallie and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1994 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore the blending of structural and historical approaches to American Indian anthropology that characterizes the perspective developed by the late Fred Eggan and his students at the University of Chicago. They include studies of kinship and social organization, politics, religion, law, ethnicity, and art. Many reflect Eggan's method of controlled comparison, a tool for reconstructing social and cultural change over time. Together these essays make substantial descriptive contributions to American Indian anthropology, presenting contemporary interpretations of diverse groups from the Hudson Bay Inuit in the north to the Highland Maya of Chiapas in the south. The collection will serve as an introduction to Native American social and cultural anthropology for readers interested in the dynamics of Indian social life.
Download or read book Man Made UFOs written by Renato Vesco and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the government wants you to think that aliens are buzzing military bases, this book presents the overwhelming evidence that most "nuts and bolts" UFOs are made on earth and piloted by earthlings. This important book reveals the secret technologies German scientists captured at the end of World War II were working on, and takes us right up to today's state-of-the-art flying machines
Download or read book Historia de la antropolog a americanista espa ola 1892 1992 written by Ignacio Domínguez Gregorio and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La presente tesis se ocupa de la historia de la antropología cultural americanista española durante un periodo histórico que abarca cien años (1892-1992). Se presta especial atención a las distintas corrientes y escuelas de pensamiento implicadas en dicho proceso, y cómo los diversos modelos intelectuales se integran y complementan la realidad ideológica de España en cada uno de los momentos estudiados. Se analiza la realidad social y económica de España y las vinculaciones entre realidad material, ideologías, políticas y ciencia. Con todo, no existe una primacía necesaria de la realidad material frente a elementos ideológicos, sino que se estudia cómo dichos aspectos se moldean mutuamente. Muy importante en este caso son también las influencias del pensamiento extranjero que sirven en muchos casos para resquebrajar el paradigma nacional dominante en cada época. La tesis no se limita a analizar la realidad tanto social como cultural y económica de España, sino que se investiga el contexto más amplio en el que queda asimilado el país. Se investiga el marco ideológico, filosófico y social europeo, también desde una perspectiva histórica más amplia que la mentada en el título del texto. Se examinan precedentes de conceptos clave modernos que llegan hasta la Antigüedad y se analizan las corrientes intelectuales que priman principalmente en Europa desde los albores de la Modernidad. Tales fenómenos son importantes puesto que España ocupa una posición periférica tanto económica como intelectualmente en el marco de referencia occidental, por lo que las ideas surgidas en otras regiones geográficas son las que luego moldean el pensamiento español. Al no poder realizar un análisis aislado de la disciplina estudiada, se tiene en cuenta también la historia de otras especialidades como la antropología física, la prehistoria, la historia o la arqueología. En última instancia se trata de entender a través de qué medios, procesos y resistencias, y en qué medida España se integra en el marco ilustrado del Occidente moderno, todo ello a través del hilo conductor de la antropología cultural americanista...
Download or read book Recent advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes written by Augusto Oyuela-Calcedo and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern Andes is a pivotal region for understanding many of the social, economic, political, and ideological changes that pre-Columbian cultures experienced. Topics inc. recent investigations on human colonisation of the region, origins of sedentism and food production, rise of chiefdoms, and importance of symbolism and iconography.
Download or read book The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico written by Jill Leslie McKeever Furst and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.
Download or read book The Role of archaeoastronomy in the Maya World written by UNESCO Office Mexico and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beast Between written by Matthew G. Looper and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization. Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019 The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic texts, mythological discourses, and ritual narratives to translate the significance and meaning of the vibrant metaphors expressed in a variety of artifacts depicting deer and hunting. Charting the importance of deer as a key component of the Maya diet, especially for elites, and analyzing the coupling of deer and maize in the Maya worldview, The Beast Between reveals a close and long-term interdependence between the Maya and these animals. Not only are deer depicted naturalistically in hunting and ritual scenes, but also they are assigned human attributes. This rich imagery reflects the many ways in which deer hunting was linked to status, sexuality, and war as part of a deeper process to ensure the regeneration of both agriculture and ancestry. Drawing on methodologies of art history, archaeology, and ethnology, this illuminating work is poised to become a key resource for multiple fields.
Download or read book Star Gods of the Maya written by Susan Milbrath and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Download or read book The Art of Precolumbian Gold written by Julie Jones and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
