Bibliography: Mesoamerican
Cultural Institutions
The four papers required for this class will deal with different dimensions of a single cultural institution. Suggested topics and beginning bibliography are provided below. In your first assignment, due January 13, you are asked to choose an institution and to explain why you chose this institution. Is it something that you have been interested in for a long time? If so, why does it interest you? Was your interest aroused by our initial descriptions by Westerners of Mesoamerican culture? Again, why do you find this interesting?
Agricultural Production
Alcohol Consumption
Ball Game
Calendar Systems
Clothing
Cuisine
Death
Gender Roles
History
Houses
Human Sacrifice
Illness and Curing
Kinship
Landscape
Market Economy
Mural Paintings
Population Growth
Urbanism
Warfare
Writing
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Michael D.
1964 The chinampas of Mexico. Scientific American 211(1):90-8.
Fedick, Scott L., ed.
1996 The
Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use. Salt
Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Nichols,
Deborah L. and Charles D. Frederick
1993 Irrigation
canals and chinamapas: The development of hydraulic agriculture
in the northern Basin of Mexico. In Water Management,
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Economic Anthropology Supplement 7). Greenwich, CT: Jai
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Parsons,
Jeffrey R.
1976 The role of chinampa agriculture in the food supply of Aztec Tenochtitlan.
In Cultural Change and Continuity, pp.
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Robin, Cynthia
2002 Gender and Maya farming: Chan Nòohol, Belize.
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Taube, Karl A.
1985 The Classic Maya maize god: A reappraisal. In Fifth
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Patricia R.
1993 Rabbits, pulque, and drunkenness: A study of ambivalence
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2000 Alcohol
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1956 El Maguey y el Pulque en los Codices Mexicanos. Mexico
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1991 The
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William B.
1997 Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial
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Diego
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1996 Playing with power: Ballcourts and political ritual
in southern
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2001 Sports, gambling, and government:
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1999
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1991 The Mesoamerican Ballgame. Tucson: University
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Munro S.
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Ross
2001 Time,
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Patricia
1981 Indian Clothing Before Cortes. Norman: University
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Brumfiel, Elizabeth M.
1997 Tribute
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1999 Textile
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Hall, Barbara Ann
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1991 Spinning
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2003 Body
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