The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

22 INTRODUCTION is. Almost all these explanations are ethnocentric, rooted in the belief that cultural sophistication could be a ...

INTRODUCTION 23 Figure A.9 Hypothetical map of ancient lost continents. After Robert Wauchope, Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents ...

(continued) 24 INTRODUCTION An even more remarkable proponent of the Atlantis tale was the French physician and ad- venturer Aug ...

INTRODUCTION 25 Figure A.10 Sarcophagus lid from the Classic-period Maya site of Palenque, Mexico. According to von Daniken, thi ...

26 INTRODUCTION Figure A.11 Painting of the defender of the Indians, Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. James A. Magner, Men of Mexico ...

INTRODUCTION 27 Old World and that its first inhabitants immigrated there “by land, which might be done without consideration in ...

28 INTRODUCTION Box A.4 recounts the contributions made by one of the key transitional figures between the Romanticists and the ...

INTRODUCTION 29 Figure A.12 Mesoamerican culture area and its main subareas. After Gordon R. Willey, et al., “The Patterns of Fa ...

30 INTRODUCTION culture was known to be very old (it was thought to have appeared around 900 B.C.), yet it already exhibited mos ...

INTRODUCTION 31 Figure A.13 Sequence (steps A–D) by which the Olmec were-jaguar motif was transformed into later religious motif ...

32 INTRODUCTION between cultures. Studies of particular cultural divergences are referred to as “spe- cific evolution,” whereas ...

INTRODUCTION 33 The Cultural Evolutionists brought the Mesoamericans down to earth, so to speak, and forced scholars to see the ...

34 INTRODUCTION on world-systems theory, see Chapter 3). Postconquest native Mesoamericans be- come participants in a worldwide ...

INTRODUCTION 35 of capitalism on Mayan communities but also of the counterreactions by Mayas in the form of mar- ket and labor s ...

36 INTRODUCTION This emphasis on native Mesoamericans is by design, and it should not be inter- preted as disinterest in the man ...

INTRODUCTION 37 We have dispensed with the Epilogue on the Zapatista movement found in the first edition, since an entire chapte ...

At daylight the clouds still hung over the forest; as the sun rose they cleared away.... The branches of the trees were dripping ...

CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION 39 ica today. The antecedents of Mesoamerican culture can be trac ...

(A.D. 800–1519), saw a continuation of these patterns of social complexity. The large and powerful theocratic states of the Clas ...

Figure 1.2 Pre-Hispanic chronology of Mesoamerica. DATE: AD 1500 AD 1000 AD 500 0 500BC 1000 BC 1500 BC 2000 BC 8000 BC ...