The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient Times to the Present - Couverture souple

Spores, Ronald; Balkansky, Andrew K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806167432 ISBN 13 : 9780806167435

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and a flourishing economy. Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day southern Mexico, and thousands more have migrated to locations throughout Mexico, the United States, and Canada. In this comprehensive survey, Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky--both preeminent scholars of Mixtec civilization--synthesize a wealth of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to trace the emergence and evolution of Mixtec civilization from the time of earliest human occupation to the present.

The Mixtec region has been the focus of much recent archaeological and ethnohistorical activity. In this volume, Spores and Balkansky incorporate the latest available research to show that the Mixtecs, along with their neighbors the Valley and Sierra Zapotec, constitute one of the world's most impressive civilizations, antecedent to--and equivalent to--those of the better-known Maya and Aztec. Employing what they refer to as a "convergent methodology," the authors combine techniques and results of archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, biological anthropology, ethnology, and participant observation to offer abundant new insights on the Mixtecs' multiple transformations over three millennia.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ronald Spores is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. His numerous publications include The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Times and The Mixtec Kings and Their People.

Andrew K. Balkansky is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of The Sola Valley and the Monte Alban State: A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion and coauthor of Origins of the Ñuu: Archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806167432
• ISBN 13: 9780806167435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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