Antigua, Guatemala; South Woodstock, Vt.: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica; Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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612 p., Carol F. Jopling [compiladora ; traducción de la introducción de Margarita Cruz de Drake]; 0252-9971; Errata sheet tipped in; Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii) and indexes; Serie monográfica (Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica) ; 7.
Since its publication in 1976, Ivan van Sertima's book They Came Before Columbus has gone through 21 printings, while receiving widespread--though not unanimous--condemnation from the American archaeological establishment, culminating in a hostile, full-length forum in Current Anthropology. And yet, startlingly, the field of American archaeology has recently found itself in the midst of a major paradigm shift, caused by archaeological evidence that obliterates the Clovis model as a legitimate demarcation of the first presence of human settlement in the New World. Kamugisha proposes to trace the response to They Came Before Columbus, while discussing the issue of diffusionism in van Sertima's work.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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229 p., Contents: Antecedents -- Life in the Back of Beyond -- Shifting Sands -- Personal Autonomy -- Age and Gender -- Kinship -- Households and Extended Families -- Death and the Work of Mourning -- Ritual Organization -- Necessity as Mother of Convention -- Afterword -- Kinship Terminology -- Ritual Expenses.
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1953-1958.
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2 v., "It includes what is probably the most reliable version of the Laws of Burgos in print (the comparable text of the New Laws appears, however, only in fragmentary form). It fills lacunae in the details of imperial policies for encomienda, native labor, slavery, cacicazgos, and ethnosocial relationships, especially of the latter sixteenth century." --Charles Gibson (JSTOR)
The article focuses on the interactions between anglophone blacks, black Caribbeans, and indigenous southern Mesoamericans during the second half of the 18th century. The author discusses the history of race relations between Europeans, Africans, and Indians within the British and Spanish empires, examines the relationship between Mayas and Spanish colonists, and analyzes the role of religious differences within their encounters.
