G
Gage, Thomas, 520
Gallareta, Tomas, 75
Gamio, Manuel, 317
García, Anastasio Somoza,
293
García, Romeo Lucas, 503
Garofuna language, 411
Garzón, Baltasar, 3 87
Geertz, Clifford, 506
Gender
awareness, 471–75
oppression, 469
Gender system, 441–45
Spanish, 44 8 –49
Geography of Mesoamerica,
8 –19
Glottochronology, 435, 43 8
Gómez, Ermilo Abreu,
48 5– 86
Gómez, Sebastián, 21 8 , 453
Gotari, Carolos Salinas de,
327
Government, during colo-
nial period, 203–5
Great Mayan Drought, 63
Grijalva River, 15, 134, 165
Grove, David, 51
Grube, Nikolai, 62
Guadalajara, 266, 26 8
Guatemala, 10, 146, 157,
18 4, 255, 257, 263, 311,
323, 32 8 , 333, 334, 339,
344, 353, 354, 365, 367,
371, 46 8 , 470, 4 8 9, 512,
520
conquest period, 177
cotton plantation in, 359
geographic regions, 14–15
Indian communities in,
33
languages in, 50
literature and art in,
478 – 80
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Maya in, 34–35
revolution, 30 8 , 309–12
ritual celebrations, 372
Tikal, 64–66
trade, 137
Guerrero, 12, 14, 241, 327,
341
Gulf Coast, 134–35
Lowlands, 16
Guzmán, Nuño de, 176H
Hammond, Norman, 52
Handbook of Middle American
Indians, 30
Haviland, William, 61
Hernández, Maximiliano,
293
Hidalgo, 265–70, 2 85
Hieroglyphic Stairway
(Copán), 223
Highlands, 8 –9, 10
Higueras. SeeHonduras
Hohokam, 142
Honduras, 5, 257, 326, 333,
353, 371, 374, 431
Copán, 69–71
geographic regions, 15
pottery in, 4 8
trade, 13 8
Horcasitas, Fernando, 491
House of Trade (Casa de
Contratación), 183
Huaxteca, 142–44
Huejotzinco, 12 8
Huichol, 497–99
Huitzilopochtli, 99, 101, 170
Human sacrifice, 164
Hunt, Eva, 531I
Ice Age, 40
Immigration, 526Independence movements,
264–73
Central America, 270–73
Mexico, 265–70
Indians
labor by, 1 8 7– 88
rights, debate over,
160–64
use of term, 6–7
verbal arts, 4 88 –500
voices in literature,
476–504
writing, 500–504
Indigenismo, 525–26
Indigenista themes, in art,
477
Indigenous production, 36 8
Individual coessences,
concept of, 527–2 8
Indo-Christian literature,
249–51
Irrigation, 55
Isabella, Queen of Castile
and Aragon, 153–54,
158 , 159
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 14,
47, 50
Itza, 179– 80
Itzcoatl, 9 8
Ix Chel, 8 2, 136, 137
Ixil language, 132
Iximché, 8 5, 87
Iztaccihuatl, 13J
Jalisco, 140
Jefferson, Thomas, 2 89
Jesuits, 1 8 5, 245
Jews, 154, 155, 199, 526
Jiménez, Doña Luz, 491, 499
Jiménez, Ricardo, 293
Jones, Grant, 113, 1 80
Juana, Queen of Castile and
Argon, 159