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, 176
H
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, 531
I
Ice Age, 40
Immigration, 526
Independence 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, 13
J
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