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

xviii LIST OF BOXES

• UNIT II COLONIAL MESOAMERICA


• CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST
  
  
  • The Origins of Spanish Imperialism,
  
  
  • Spain’s Colonial Enterprise Begins,
  
  
  • The Debate over Indian Rights,
  
  
  • The Campaign Against the Aztecs,
  
  
  • The Conquest of Michoacán,
  
  
  • The Maya Area,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA
  
  
  • The Colonial Regime, (Louise M. Burkhart and Janine Gasco)
  
  
  • Civil-Religious Institutions Affecting the Native Population,
  
  
  • Evangelization: Issues and Implications,
  
  
  • Colonial Society,
  
  
  • Life in the Corporate Community,
  
  
  • Native Rebellions,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA
  
  
  • Pre-Columbian Literature, (Louise M. Burkhart)
  
  
  • The Colonial Codices,
  
  
  • Colonial Transcriptions of Oral Literature,
  
  
  • Native and Mestizo Historians,
  
  
  • Indo-Christian Literature,
  
  
  • Civil or Notarial Literature,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA
  
  
  • Dictatorship, Nineteenth-Century Social History: From Independence to
  
  
  • Mesoamericans and the Independence Movements,
  
  
  • Mesoamerican Indians under Conservative and Liberal Rule,
  
  
  • Nativist Movements by Mesoamerican Indians,
  
  
  • U.S. Meddling and Other Antecendents to the Modern Era,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• UNIT III MODERN MESOAMERICA


• CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA
  
  
  • Revolutions, Native Mesoamericans and the Mexican and Central American
  
  
  • America, Development and Native Mesoamericans in Mexico and Central
  
  
  • and Central America, Native Mesoamerican Ethnic and National Movements in Mexico
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
    
    
    • OF MESOAMERICA CHAPTER 9 TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • The Traditional Milpa, (Liliana R. Goldin and Walter E. Little)
  
  
  • Economic Legacies of Colonialism,
  
  
  • Labor and Production in the Global Economy,
  
  
  • Distribution and Consumption,
  
  
  • Mesoamerica in a Transnational World,
  
  
  • Economy and Change in Mesoamerica,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT
  
  
  • Zapatistas Launch a New Kind of War, (Gary H. Gossen)
  
  
  • Contexts Within which the Movement Has Emerged,
  
  
  • General Structural Themes of the Zapatista Movement,
  
  
  • Social and Ethnic Structure of the Zapatistas,
  
  
  • Zapatista Political Organization,
  
  
  • The Wider Significance of the Zapatista Movement,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• UNIT IV MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES


• CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA
  
  
  • The Diversity of Mesoamerican Languages, (John S. Justeson and George A. Broadwell)
  
  
  • The Structure of the Mesoamerican Languages,
  
  
  • Language Variation and Change,
  
  
  • Writing in Ancient Mesoamerica,
  
  
  • Language and History,
  
  
  • Final Comment,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA
  
  
  • The Prehispanic Mesoamerican Gender System, (Brenda Rosenbaum and Christine Eber)
  
  
  • Women and Gender in the Colonial Period,
  
  
  • Women in Postcolonial Mexico (1821-1940s),
  
  
  • Contemporary Mesoamerican Gender Relations,
  
  
  • Gender Awareness and Contemporary Women’s Movements,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 13 THE INDIAN VOICE IN RECENT MESOAMERICAN LITERATURE
  
  
  • The Nineteenth-Century Hiatus, (Gary H. Gossen)
    
    
    • and Literature, The Representation of Indian Voices in Recent Mesoamerican Art
    
    
    • of Mesoamerica, The Native Voice in National Written Literatures
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Traditional Indian Verbal Arts in the Twentieth Century,
  
  
  • New Indian Writing in Mesoamerica,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA
  
  
  • The Ancient World, (Gary H. Gossen)
  
  
  • The Mesoamerican Spiritual World Meets the West,
  
  
  • Into the Modern Era,
  
  
  • Is There a Common Core of Mesoamerican Spirituality?,
  
  
  • Suggested Readings,
  
  
  
  


• GLOSSARY


• BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES


• INDEX


• Box A.1 Three Geographic Zones of Middle America p. xvii


• Box A.2 The Central American Isthmus p.


• Box A.3 Lost-Continent Romanticists p.


• Box A.4 Brasseur de Bourbourg, a Scientific Precursor p.


• Box A.5 Recent Approaches to the Study of Mayan Peoples in Guatemala p.


• Box 1.1 Maize p.


• Box 1.2 Mesoamerican Calendars p.


• Box 1.3 Mesoamerican Technology p.


• Box 1.4 Changing Views of Mesoamerican Cities p.


• Box 1.5 The Long Count Calendar p.


• Box 2.1 The Mexica Capital Tenochtitlan p.


• Box 2.2 Archaeology and Mesoamerican Peasants p.


• Box 2.3 The Application of Aztec Law to the Crime of Adultery p.


• Box 2.4 The Story of Lord Eight Deer and His Legacy p.


• Box 3.1 The Trading Center of Acalan p.


• Box 3.2 Yopitzinco p.


• Box 3.3 The Lencas p.


• Box 4.1 The Demographic Consequences of European Contact p.


• Box 4.2 La Malinche p.


• Box 4.3 The Death of Tekum p.


• Box 5.1 The Virgin of Guadalupe p.


• Box 5.2 Ana Gets a New House Site: San Miguel Tocuillan, 1583 p.


• Box 5.3 The Tzeltal Revolt, Chiapas, 1712 p.


• Box 6.1 Codex Borbonicus p.


• Box 6.2 The Prayer to the Rain God Tlaloc p.


• Box 6.3 Nahua-Christian Songs p.


• Box 7.1 Napoleon, the Great Horned Serpent p.


• Box 7.2 The Atanasio Tzul Rebellion p.


• Box 7.3 Benito Juárez, Mexico’s Greatest Indian Hero p.


• Box 7.4 Tepoztlán, Mexico, and the Liberal Reforms p.


• Box 7.5 The Yaqui Rebellions p.


• Box 7.6 Porfirio Díaz and the Indians of Mexico p.


• Box 8.1 Lazaro Cárdenas and the Indians p.


• Box 8.2 Revolution in Oaxaca p.


• Box 8.3 Rigoberta Menchú, A Mayan Witness to the Guatemalan Revolution p.


• Box 8.4 The Figueres Reforms in Costa Rica p.


• Box 8.5 The Cultural Logic of Local Mayan Identities in Guatemala p.


• Box 8.6 Mesoamerican Identities in Mexico City p.


• Box 8.7 Mixtec Ethnicity in Mexico p.


• Box 8.8 A Critique of the Pan-Mayan Movement p.
  
  
  • Township of San Pedro Almolonga, “The Central American Garden” p. Box 9.1 Agricultural Petty Commodity Production: A Case Study of the K’iche’ Mayan
  
  
  
  


• Box 9.2 Working and Living Conditions on a Guatemalan Cotton Plantation p.
  
  
  • Valle, Chiapas p. Box 9.3 Petty Commodity Production in the Tzeltal Mayan Township of Amatenango del
  
  
  
  


• Box 9.4 The Economic Links Between New York and Atitlán p.


• Box 9.5 Indigenous Production for Tourists p.


• Box 9.6 Celebrating an Indigenous Ritual in a Transnational Setting p.


• Box 10.1 Parallels Between Mayan Calendrical Rites and Zapatista History p.


• Box 10.2 Preamble of the 1996 Zapatista Indigenous Forum p.


• Box 10.3 The Zapatista Ideal of Inclusion p.


• Box 11.1 Garífuna, a Language with a Complex History p.


• Box 11.2 Whistled Speech in Oaxaca p.


• Box 11.3 Linguistic Diffusion from Mixe-Zoquean p.


• Box 11.4 Using the Zapotec Language Today p.


• Box 11.5 Ethnocentrism and Writing Systems p.


• Box 11.6 Deciphering Epi-Olmec p.


• Box 11.7 The Mesoamericanization of Nahua p.


• Box 11.8 The Origin of Place-value Notation and the Discovery of Zero p.


• Box 12.1 Aztec Women and Ritual Sweeping p.


• Box 12.2 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz p.


• Box 12.3 Women in the Cuscat Uprising p.


• Box 12.4 Mayan Women Ease the Economic Crisis Through Domestic Production p.


• Box 12.5 Women’s Awakening to Gender Oppression p.


• Box 12.6 How Conavigua Came to Life p.


• Box 12.7 Women’s Organizations in Contemporary Central America p.


• Box 12.8 The Women’s Revolutionary Law p.


• Box 13.1 Canek: History and Legend of a Maya Hero p.


• Box 13.2 Formal Speech Between Compadres of Zinacantán p.


• Box 13.3 A Folk Taxonomy of Chamula Verbal Behavior p.


• Box 13.4 Huichol Journey to Find Their Life p.


• Box 14.1 Precepts of Mayan Religion p.


• Box 14.2 Gage’s Account of a Little Tradition p.