Heritage of Conquest: The Ethnology of Middle America |
Contents
PREFACE | 7 |
MESOAMERICA by Paul Kirchhoff | 17 |
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PRES | 31 |
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acculturation agricultural Agua Escondida Aztec barrios Beals cabecera Camara Cancuc Catholic centrifugal communities centripetal communities ceremonies characteristic Cherán Chiapas Chibcha Chichicastenango Chorti clan cofradía Conquest considered cultivators dances deities economic ethnic ethos example festivities fiestas Fuente Gillin Goubaud Guatemala Guiteras highlands Huastec important Indian communities Indian cultures individual Jimenez Moreno kinship Kirchhoff Lacandon Ladino culture Ladinos land less lineage living lowland magical maize marriage Maya Mesoamerica Mestizo Mexican Mexico Michoacán Middle America milpa Mitla municipio munity Nahua native non-Indian Oaxaca Otomí Oxchuc Panajachel patrilineal patron saint pattern Paul Pedro la Laguna places political organization Popoluca Quintana Roo region relations religious ritual sacred San Luis Jilotepeque San Pedro social Spanish supernatural Tarascan tend tendency things tion Totonac towns traits tribes Tumin Tzeltal Tzotzil Veracruz Villa Alta women X-Cacal Yalalag Yucatan Zapotec