2012 latin america catalog

Latin AmericaU n i v e r s i t y o f o k l a h o m a P r e s s

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For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about Latin America and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from the University of Oklahoma Press as well as books distributed for the Denver Art Museum and the Gilcrease Museum.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to the University of Oklahoma Press, the University Press of Florida, and the University of Texas Press. This grant was made to encourage publication and digital scholarship for first-time authors working in Latin American and Caribbean arts and culture. This initiative will provide opportunities for a new generation of young scholars whose works meet high academic standards but might have been deemed too expensive for publication. This collaboration will utilize the existing strengths and capacity of each of these publishers to solicit, publish, and market twenty-seven books.

If you have a manuscript or a publication proposal and are a first-time author with an interest in publishing your Latin American studies book with the University of Oklahoma Press, please contact Alessandra Jacobi Tamulevich at [email protected].

On the cover: Pendant-mask associated to the rituals of Aztec god XipeTotec, Mexico Valley. Photograph by Marie-Lan nguyen.

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New and Forthcomingmaya exodusIndigenous struggle for citizenship in chiapasBy Heidi Moksnes$26.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4292-0 · 280 pages · Available october 2012

Maya Exodus offers a richly detailed account of how a group of indigenous people has adopted a global language of human rights to press claims for social change and social justice.

mesoamerican memoryenduring systems of remembranceedited by Amos Megged and stephanie Wood$55.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-4235-7 · 328 pages · Available october 2012

both before and after the spanish conquest, indigenous scribes recorded their communities’ histories and belief systems, as well as the events of the conquest and its effects and aftermath. Today, the descendants of those native historians still remember their ancestors’ stories. Amos megged and stephanie Wood have gathered the latest scholarship to compare these various memories and explore how they were preserved and altered over time.

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At the crossroadsThe Arts of spanish America and early global Trade, 1492–1850edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka$39.95s cloth · 978-0-914738-80-0 · 176 pages · Available November 2012

The Denver Art museum held a symposium in 2010, co-hosted by the Frederick and Jan mayer center for pre-columbian and spanish colonial Art and by the Asian Art Department William sharpless Jackson Jr. endowment, to examine the impact of early modern globalization on the arts of spanish America. This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the symposium.

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Indian conquistadorsIndigenous Allies in the conquest of mesoamericaedited by Laura e. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4325-5 · 368 pages · Available october 2012

The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. Indian Conquistadors examines the role of native peoples as active agents in the conquest and the overwhelming importance of native allies in both conquest and colonial control.

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National Narratives in mexicoA HistoryBy enrique Florescano Translated by Nancy Hancock Drawings by raúl Velázquez$29.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4318-7 · 448 pages · Available october 2012

If history is written by the victors, then as the rulers of a nation change, so too does its history. mexico has had many distinct periods of history, demonstrating clearly that the tale changes depending on the writer or historiographer. In National Narratives in Mexico, enrique Florescano examines each historical vision of mexico as it was interpreted in its own time, revealing the influences of national or ethnic identity, culture, and evolving concepts of history and national memory.

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Indian Alliances and the spanish in the southwest, 750–1750By William B. Carter$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4302-6 · 312 pages · Available June 2012

When considering the history of the southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed on pueblo towns and spanish settlements. carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after spanish settlement.

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Transcending conquestNahua Views of spanish colonial mexicoBy stephanie Wood$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4303-3 · 228 pages · Available June 2012

In Transcending Conquest, stephanie Wood uses Nahuatl writings and illustrations to reveal Nahua perspectives on spanish colonial occupations of the Western Hemisphere. Drawing on mesoamerican peoples’ strong tradition of pictorial record keeping, Wood examines multiple examples of pictorial imagery to explore how native manuscripts depicted the european invader and colonizer.

engaging Ancient maya sculpture at piedras Negras, guatemalaBy Megan e. O’neil$55.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-4257-9 · 328 pages · Available may 2012

Now shrouded in guatemalan jungle, the ancient maya city of piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries c.e. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, megan e. o’Neil offers new ways to understand the stelae, altars, and panels of the ancient city by exploring how ancient maya people interacted with them.

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bernardino de sahagúnFirst AnthropologistBy Miguel León-Portilla Translated by mauricio J. mixco$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4271-5 · 340 pages

sent from spain on a religious crusade to mexico to “detect the sickness of idolatry,” bernardino de sahagún (c. 1499–1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. This biography presents the life story of a fascinating man who came to mexico intent on changing the traditions and cultures, but instead ended up working to preserve them.

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The Quiché mayas of utatlánThe evolution of a Highland guatemala kingdomBy Robert M. Carmack$34.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4268-5 · 454 pages

Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán offers a full account of the Quichés, the most powerful maya group in the guatemala highlands at the time of the spanish conquest. carmack re-creates the setting of this empire, and peoples it with the rulers, priests, warriors, allies, and travelers who gave it life.

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companion to spanish colonial Art at the Denver Art museumBy Donna Pierce$19.95s paper · 978-0-914738-78-7 · 106 pages

The Denver Art museum counts among its greatest resources a world-renowned spanish colonial collection rich in art from all over latin America, including more than 3,000 objects. This lavishly illustrated volume serves as a primer to this stellar art collection, framing it within the historical context of the early modern world and the first era of global trade.

Aztecs on stagereligious Theater in colonial mexicoedited and translated by Louise M. Burkhart Translated by Barry D. sell and stafford Poole $24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4209-8 · 244 pages

Nahuatl drama, one of the most surprising results of the catholic presence in colonial mexico, merges medieval european religious theater with the language and performance traditions of the Aztec (Nahua) people of central mexico. Aztecs on Stage presents accessible english translations of six of these seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Nahuatl plays. louise m. burkhart’s engaging introduction places the plays in historical context.


marajóAncient ceramics from the mouth of the AmazonBy Margaret Young-sánchez and Denise P. schaan$25.00s paper · 978-0-914738-73-2 · 88 pages

The Amazon basin is now recognized as a cradle of cultural and technological innovation in the ancient Americas. lavishly illustrated, this volume presents ceramics from the Denver Art museum, barbier-mueller museums of geneva and barcelona, university of pennsylvania museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, American museum of Natural History, and private collections.

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To capture the sungold of Ancient panamaContributions by Richard G. Cooke. nicholas J. saunders, John W. Hoopes, and Jeffrey Quilter$39.95s cloth · 978-0-9819799-0-8 · 400 pages $24.95s paper · 978-0-9819799-1-5 · 400 pages

more than a beautifully illustrated exhibit catalogue, this volume includes essays by leading scholars who use the gilcrease collection to discuss the rise of metallurgy in the Western Hemisphere, the symbolic significance of gold in gran coclé culture, and the influence of pre-columbian gold on world economies.

Daily life in colonial mexicoThe Journey of Friar Ilarione da bergamo, 1761–1768by Friar Ilarione da bergamoedited and translated by William J. Orr edited by Robert R. Miller$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4233-3 · 256 pages

In 1761 Ilarione da bergamo, a capuchin friar, journeyed to mexico to gather alms for foreign missions. After harrowing voyages across the mediterranean and Atlantic, he reached mexico city in 1763. After his return to Italy, Ilarione wrote an account of his journey, published here for the first time in english.

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Juan de ovandogoverning the spanish empire in the reign of philip IIBy stafford Poole$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4238-8 · 304 pages

philip II is a fascinating and enigmatic figure in spanish history, but it was his letrados—professional bureaucrats and ministers trained in law—who made his vast castilian empire possible. Juan de poole’s biography of Juan de ovando provides an intimate view of the day-to-day influence letrados wielded over the spanish colonial machine.

The Jar of severed HandsBy Mark santiago $29.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-4177-0 · 264 pages

more than two centuries after the coronado expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. mark santiago’s gripping account of spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the southwest and northern mexico.

After moctezumaIndigenous politics and self-government in mexico city, 1524-1730By William F. Connell$45.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-4175-6 · 352 pages

The spanish invasion of mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in ruins. conquistador Hernán cortés, following the city’s surrender in 1521, established a governing body to organize its reconstruction. After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 reveals how native self-government in former Tenochtitlan evolved over time as the city and its population changed.

pedro moya de contrerascatholic reform and royal power in New spain, 1571–1591 second editionBy stafford Poole$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4171-8 · 352 pages

For a brief few years in the sixteenth century, pedro moya de contreras was the most powerful man in the New World. A church official and loyal royalist, this new edition offers an expanded understanding of this enigmatic figure’s influence on the development of New spain.

The Tenochca empire of Ancient mexicoThe Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and TlacopanBy Pedro Carrasco$39.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4199-2 · 512 pages

The most important political entity in pre-spanish mesoamerica was the Tenochca empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the basin of mexico and other extensive areas of mesoamerica. carrasco incorporates years of research in the archives of mexico and spain and compares primary sources from all three of the great kingdoms.


Nature and spiritAncient costa rican Treasures in the mayer collection at the Denver Art museumBy Margaret Young-sánchez$49.95s cloth · 978-0-914738-68-8 · 192 pages

The Denver Art museum’s collection of ancient costa rican art is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. Nature and Spirit reveals to the modern world the richness and sophistication of indigenous thought and the incredible beauty of native art in the Americas.

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Best Sellerspopol VuhThe sacred book of the mayaTranslation by Allen J. Christenson$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3839-8 · 327 pages

The popol Vuh is the most important example of maya literature to have survived the spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of genesis. based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of maya literature, this translation with extensive notes is uniquely faithful to the original language. retaining the poetic style of the original text, the translation is also remarkably accessible to english readers.

Fifteen poets of the Aztec WorldBy Miguel León-Portilla$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3291-4 · 328 pages

In this first english-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into english, miguel león-portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in english by grace lobanov. biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their extant poems in Nahuatl and in english.

The conquest of AmericaThe Question of the otherBy Tzyetan Todoroy $29.95 paper · 978-0-8061-3137-5 · 288 pages

The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the spaniards’ conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-columbian cultures in mexico and the caribbean.

Aztec ArtBy esther Pasztory$36.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2536-7 · 512 pages

This is the first comprehensive book on Aztec art: eleven chapters illustrated with seventy-five superb color plates and hundreds of photographs, supplemented by maps and diagrams. Temple architecture, majestic stone sculpture carved without metal tools, featherwork and turquoise mosaic, painted books, and sculptures in terra cotta and rare stones - all are here.

Hernando de sotoA savage Quest in the AmericasBy David e. Duncan$29.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2977-8 · 608 pages

This is the story of a legendary expedition across four thousand miles of the future united states, led by an explorer searching for an illusionary empire of gold. Formerly the second-in-command in Francisco pizarro’s conquest of the Incas in 1531, Hernando de soto arrived in the country he called la Florida in 1539, leading a glittering, armored renaissance-era army of six hundred men on the first major exploration of North America.

The last conquistadorJuan de onate and the settling of the Far southwestBy Marc simmons$21.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2368-4 · 224 pages

This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de oñate, the first colonizer of the old spanish borderlands. born in Zacatecas, mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family.

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The Treaty of guadalupe Hidalgoby richard griswold del castillo$26.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2478-0 · 268 pages

signed in 1848, the Treaty of guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the united states and mexico and gave a large portion of mexico’s northern territories to the united states. The language of the treaty was designed to deal fairly with the people who became residents of the united states by default. However, as richard griswold del castillo points out, articles calling for equality and protection of civil and property rights were either ignored or interpreted to favor those involved in the westward expansion of the united states rather than the mexicans and Indians living in the conquered territories.

Aztec Thought and cultureA study of the Ancient Nahuatl mindBy Miguel León-Portilla$26.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2295-3 · 272 pages

“león-portilla has made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of Aztec religious thought…. Along with his analysis of this philosophical revolution león-portilla also provides us with a superb summary of the official cosmological and cosmogonic system.”—American Antiquity

mexicoA HistoryBy Robert Ryal Miller$26.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2178-9 · 428 pages

“This well-written, tastefully illustrated history of mexico surveys the social, cultural and political climate of the ancient Indian civilizations, the colonial period, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century mexico.” —Current History

pre-columbian literatures of mexicoby miguel leon-portilla$19.95s paper · 9780806119748 · 208 pages

This volume presents ancient mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment.

Featured Backlist Alphabet of the Worldselected Works by eugenio montejoedited by Kirk nesset Introduction by Wilfredo Hernández$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4148-0 · 256 pages

eugenio montejo was one of the most significant latin American poets and essayists of the past half century. All of the selections are presented here in the original spanish, with translations in english by prize-winning writer and poet, kirk Nesset.

Dreaming with the Ancestorsblack seminole Women in Texas and mexicoBy shirley B. Mock$34.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-4053-7 · 400 pages

Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women’s roles have largely been absent from that discussion. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, shirley boteler mock explores the role that black seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and mexican influences.

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The Arts of south America, 1492–1850By Donna Pierce$39.95s paper · 978-0-8061-9976-4 · 224 pages

The mayer center for pre-columbian and spanish colonial Art at the Denver Art museum held a symposium in 2008 to examine the arts of south America during the culturally complex period of spanish and portuguese colonialism in the early modern era. edited by Denver Art museum curator Donna pierce, this volume presents revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the symposium.

colonial ch’olti’The seventeenth-century morán manuscriptBy John s. Robertson, Danny Law, and Robbie A. Haertel$65.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-4118-3 · 384 pages

At the time of the spanish conquest, ch’olti’ was spoken throughout much of the southern maya lowlands. This book presents for the first time a facsimile, transcription, english and spanish translation, and grammatical analysis of the morán manuscript, a colonial-era document that provides the sole attestation of ch’olti’.

The Dog Who spoke and more mayan Folktales el perro que habló y más cuentos mayas By James D. sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Meíja$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4130-5 · 352 pages

In the delightful mayan folktale The Dog Who Spoke, we learn what happens when a dog’s master magically transforms into a dog-man who reasons like a man but acts like a dog. This and the other mayan folktales in this bilingual collection brim with the enchanting creativity of rural guatemala’s oral culture.

Framing the sacred The Indian churches of early colonial mexico By eleanor Wake$65.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-4033-9 · 368 pages

christian churches erected in mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of european conquest and religious domination. or did they? building on recent research that questions the “cultural” conquest of mesoamerica, eleanor Wake shows that colonial mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them.

bonfires of culture Franciscans, Indigenous leaders, and the Inquisition in early mexico, 1524–1540 By Patricia L. Don$34.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-4049-0 · 280 pages

In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century mexico. patricia lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of spanish methods of colonization, providing a fresh interpretation of an early period that has remained too long understudied.

History of the Indies of New spainBy Fray D. Duran$39.95s paper · 978-0-8061-4107-7 · 642 pages

Duran’s History of the Indians of New Spain is a vivid evocation of the Aztec world before the spanish conquest. based on a Nahuatl chronicle now lost and on interviews with living Aztec informants, Duran’s History describes the intrigues and court life of the elite. Duran chronicles daily life in times of war and in times of flood and drought, when people sold their children for a handful of corn.

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The New catalog of maya HieroglyphsVolume 1: The classic period InscriptionsBy Martha J. Macri and Matthew G Looper$65.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-3497-0 · 480 pages

The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume I: The Classic Period Inscriptions is a guide to all the known hieroglyphic symbols of the classic maya script. In the New catalog martha J. macri and matthew g. looper have produced a valuable research tool based on the latest mesoamerican scholarship.

New catalog of maya HeiroglyphsVolume 2: The codical TextsBy Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail$65.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-4071-1 · 320 pages

This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on classic period monumental inscriptions. Together the two volumes of the New catalog represent the most significant updating of the sign lists for the maya script proposed in half a century.


Asia and spanish AmericaTrans-pacific Artistic and cultural exchange, 1500-1850By Ronald Otsuka edited by Donna Pierce$39.95s paper · 978-0-8061-9973-3 · 208 pages

The Denver Art museum held a symposium in 2006 to examine a little-known aspect of globalization in the early modern era. edited by Denver Art museum curators Donna pierce and ronald otsuka, this volume presents revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the symposium.

Volume 1: Death and life in colonial Nahua mexicoThis first volume presents new transcriptions and translations of seven Nahuatl-language plays enacting Native interpretations of biblical and moralistic themes, with four accompanying analytical essays.

Volume 2: our lady of guadalupe The only known colonial Nahuatl-language dramas based on the Virgin of guadalupe story: the Dialogue of the Apparition of the Virgin Saint Mary of Guadalupe and The Mexican Portent.

Volume 3: spanish golden-Age Drama in mexican Translationpresented for the first time in english are the complete dramatic works of Don bartolomé de Alva—the only known plays from spain’s golden Age adapted for an Aztec audience.

Volume 4: Nahua christianity in performanceThe editors provide new insights into Nahua conceptions of christianity and of society, gender, and morality in the late colonial period. The book includes precise transcriptions and first-time english translations.

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4-volume set $160.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-9974-0 · 1,408 pages

Nahuatl Theatreedited by barry D. sell and louise m. burkhart



Tiwanakupapers from the 2005 mayer center symposium at the Denver Art museumBy Margaret Young-sánchez$45.00s paper · 978-0-8061-9972-6 · 264 pages

In 2005, the Denver Art museum hosted a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca. bringing together current research on pucara, Tiwanaku, Wari, and Inca art and archaeology, this volume will be an important resource for scholars and enthusiasts of ancient south America.

maya sacred geography and the creator DeitiesBy Karen Bassie-sweet$50.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-3957-9 · 384 pages

Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities is a detailed ethnohistorical analysis of maya religion, cosmology, and ritual practice that convincingly links mythology to the land. A comprehensive treatment of maya religion, it provides an essential resource for scholars and will fascinate any reader captivated by these ancient beliefs.

Voices from exileViolence and survival in modern maya Historyby Victor montejo$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3985-2 · 288 pages

elilal, exile, is the condition of thousands of mayas who have fled their homelands in guatemala to escape repression and even death at the hands of their government. In this book, Victor montejo, who is both a maya expatriate and an anthropologist, gives voice to those who until now have struggled in silence—but who nevertheless have found ways to reaffirm and celebrate their mayaness.


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Health care in maya guatemalaconfronting medical pluralism in a Developing countryedited by Walter Randolph Adams and John P. Hawkins$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3859-6 · 288 pages

This book examines medical systems and institutions in three k’iche’ maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.

popol Vuhliteral poetic Version Translation and Transcription by Allen J. christenson$37.50s paper · 978-0-8061-3841-1 · 320 pages

This second volume provides a literal, line-by-line english translation of the Popol Vuh, capturing the beauty, subtlety, and high poetic language characteristic of k’iche’-maya sacred writings. by arranging the work according to its poetic structure, christenson preserves the poem’s original phraseology and grammar, allowing subtle nuances of meaning to emerge.

popol VuhThe sacred book of the Ancient Quiché mayaBy Adrián Recinos$21.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2266-3 · 288 pages

“‘popol Vuh,’ meaning ‘book of community,’ is a mixed record of the cosmic beliefs, folklore, semi-historical migrations and genealogies of the Quiché Indians, one of the maya tribes that lives in the highlands of guatemala.... The book is well worth reading.”—New York Herald Tribune

mexico and the spanish conquestsecond editionBy Ross Hassig$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3793-3 · 288 pages

What role did indigenous peoples play in the spanish conquest of mexico? ross Hassig explores this question in Mexico and the Spanish Conquest by incorporating primary accounts from the Indians of mexico and revisiting the events of the conquest against the backdrop of the Aztec empire, the culture and politics of mesoamerica, and the military dynamics of both sides.

Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530–1900edited by Joanne pillsburyWith written contributions by 122 scholars from nineteen countries and amply illustrated with drawings, engravings, photographs, and maps, the Guide offers new perspectives on key works and reflects substantial changes in indigenous Andean historical and cultural studies of the past fifty years. The first volume contains twenty-nine essays about the origin and nature of the sources, focusing on recent research and interpretations. Volumes 2 and 3 list specific authors alphabetically and discuss their texts. The entries contain such information as biographical data, locations of manuscripts, publication history, translations, and references to secondary literature.

3-volume set: $195.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-9963-4 · 1,296 pages


prehistoric mesoamerica Third editionBy Richard e. W. Adams$32.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3702-5 · 544 pages

An up-to-date overview of mesoamerican cultures from early prehistoric times through the fall of the Aztec empire, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Third Edition will be useful and appealing to readers interested in mesoamerican art, society, politics, and intellectual achievement.

roads to change in maya guatemalaA Field school Approach to understanding the k’iche’by John p. Hawkins and Walter randolph Adams$29.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-3708-7 · 240 pages $19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3730-8 · 240 pages

between 1995 and 1997, three groups of college students each spent two months in k’iche’ maya villages in guatemala. led by professors John p. Hawkins and Walter randolph Adams, they participated in an ongoing field school designed to foster undergraduate research and documentation of k’iche’ maya culture in guatemala.

mexico’s Indigenous pastby Alfredo lopez Austin and leonardo lopez lujan Translated by bernard r. ortiz de montellano$39.95 cloth · 978-0-8061-3214-3 · 368 pages $29.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3723-0 · 368 pages

This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with european occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of mexico’s precolonial past.

Historical Atlas of central AmericaBy Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli $99.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-3037-8 · 336 pages $34.95 paper · 978-0-8061-3038-5 · 336 pages

Drawing on more than fifty combined years of research and teaching in central America, carolyn Hall and Héctor pérez brignoli provide a new interpretation and an innovative synthesis of the region’s history and culture in the Historical Atlas of Central America.

volume i$80.00s cloth

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volume ii$80.00s cloth

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volume iii$80.00s cloth

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Tlacuilollistyle and contents of the mexican pictorial manuscripts with a catalog of the borgia groupby karl Anton Nowotny Translated by george A. everett and edward b. sisson$75.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-3653-0 · 384 pages

Appearing for the first time in english, karl Anton Nowotny’s Tlacuilolli is a classic work of mesoamerican scholarship. A concise analysis of the pre-columbian borgia group of manuscripts, it is the only synthetic interpretation of divinatory and ritual codices from mexico.

law and the Transformation of Aztec culture, 1500–1700by susan kellogg$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3685-1 · 320 pages

In this book, susan kellogg explains how spanish law served as an instrument of cultural transformation and adaptation in the lives of Nahuatl-speaking peoples during the years 1500–1700—the first two centuries of colonial rule. she shows that law had an impact on numerous aspects of daily life, especially gender relations, patterns of property ownership and transmission, and family and kinship organization.

Introduction to classical Nahuatlrevised editionBy J. Richard Andrews$80.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-3452-9 · 704 pages $45.00s Workbook · 978-0-8061-3453-6

For many years, J. richard Andrews’s Introduction to Classical Nahuatl has been the standard reference work for scholars and students of Nahuatl, the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of central mexico. Andrews’s work was the first book to make Nahuatl accessible as a coherent language system and to recognize such crucial linguistic features as vowel length and the glottal stop. Accompanied by a workbook, this long-awaited new edition is extensively revised, enlarged, and updated with the latest research.

Tatiana proskouriakoffInterpreting the Ancient mayaBy Char solomon$34.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-3445-1 · 240 pages

born in siberia during a turbulent period in russian history, Tatiana proskouriakoff came to America during World War I. proskouriakoff excelled in art and completed a degree in architecture. she entered the field of mesoamerican archaeology in the mid-1930s as a draftsperson and artist for a university of pennsylvania archaeological project in the petén rainforest of guatemala. by the end of her life, she had become one of the premier scholars of mayan civilization.

Alfred maudslay and the mayaA biographyBy Ian Graham$29.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-3450-5 · 336 pages

In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred maudslay (1850-1931), Ian graham describes this extraordinary englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient maya ruins.


maya Warsethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-century YucatanBy Terry Rugeley$24.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-3355-3 · 224 pages

Maya Wars is the first collection of documents devoted entirely to the nineteenth-century Yucatec mayas. This compilation includes writings by priests, missionaries, Hispanic officials and military officers, foreign travelers and explorers, and the mayas themselves.

The Decipherment of Ancient maya WritingBy Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and David stuart$65.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-3204-4 · 576 pages

The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing is an important story of intellectual discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to the interpreting of egyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of cuneiform. This book provides a history of the interpretation of maya hieroglyphs. Introductory essays offer the historical context and describe the personalities and theories of the many authors who contributed to the understanding of these ancient glyphs.

conquest of the sierraspaniards and Indians in colonial oaxacaBy John K. Chance$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3337-9 · 252 pages

Conquest of the Sierra depicts the colonial experience in the sierra Zapoteca, a remote mountain region of oaxaca, in southern mexico. based on unpublished and hitherto untapped archival sources, this book traces the evolution of a unique regional colonial society.

The real contra WarHighlander peasant resistance in NicaraguaBy Timothy C. Brown$32.95 cloth · 978-0-8061-3252-5 · 352 pages

relying on original documents, interviews with veterans, and other primary sources, brown contradicts conventional wisdom about the contras, debunking most of what has been written about the movement’s leaders, origins, aims, and foreign support.

“[The real contra War] should be required reading for students of twentieth-century latin American revolutionary theory and contemporary history.” —ambassador everett ellis briggs

The Inca WorldBy Laura Laurencich Minelli$36.95 cloth · 978-0-8061-3221-1 · 480 pages

The development of the Inca empire was complex and often paradoxical. This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archaeological research and spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many questions and contradictions regarding the Inca empire.

Women in Ancient AmericaBy Karen Olsen Bruhns, Karen e. stothert$24.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-3169-6 · 352 pages

This first comprehensive work on women in precolumbian American cultures describes gender roles and relationships in North, central, and south America from 12,000 b.c. to the 1500s a.d. utilizing many key archaeological works, karen olsen bruhns and karen e. stothert redress some of the long-standing male bias in writing about ancient Native American lifeways.


The covenants with earth and rainexchange, sacrifice, and revelation in mixtec societyBy John Monaghan$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3192-4 · 416 pages

In this book, John monaghan explores the culture of the mixtecs, today one of the largest Native American groups in mexico. Focusing on the community of santiago Nuyoo, located in the mountainous mixteca Alta region, he describes Nuyooteco marriage practices, gift exchange, kinship systems, land tenure, cosmology, ritual, and feasting.

maya resurgence in guatemalaQ’eqchi’ experiencesBy Richard Wilson$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-3195-5 · 392 pages

Across guatemala, mayan peoples are struggling to recover from decades of cataclysmic upheaval—religious conversions, civil war, displacement, military repression. richard Wilson carried out long-term research with Q’eqchi’-speaking mayas in the province of Alta Verapaz to ascertain how these events affected social organization and identity.

Amphibians and reptiles of Northern guatemala, the Yucatan, and belizeBy Jonathan A. Campbell$45.00s paper · 978-0-8061-3066-8 · 400 pages

Frogs, toads, salamanders, caecilians, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, and numerous species of snakes in the petén region of northern guatemala and adjacent terrain in mexico and belize are illustrated and profiled in this first field guide to the reptiles and amphibians of the area.

Indian Women of early mexicoBy susan schroeder, stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2960-0 · 496 pages

This collection of essays by leading scholars in mexican ethnohistory, edited by susan schroeder, stephanie Wood, and robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest colonial mexico.

cesar chavezA Triumph of spiritBy Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia$19.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2957-0 · 224 pages

When farm worker and labor organizer césar chávez burst upon America’s national scene in 1965, u.s. readers and viewers were witnessing the emergence of a new mexican American, or chicano, movement. This biography of chávez by richard griswold del castillo and richard A. garcia is the first to approach chávez’s life–his courageous acts, his turning points, his many perceived personas–in the context of chicano and American history.

codex chimalpahin, Volume 1society and politics in mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, culhuacan, and other Nahua Altepetl in central mexicoBy Domingo de san Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin$49.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-2921-1 · 256 pages

This groundbreaking edition of the codex chimalpahin, edited and translated by Arthur J. o. Anderson and susan schroeder, makes available in english for the first time the transcription and translation of the most comprehensive history of native mexico by a known Indian.


codex chimalpahin, Volume 2society and politics in mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, culhuacan, and other Nahua Altepetl in central mexicoBy Domingo de san Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin$40.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-2950-1 · 256 pages

The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom we have much knowledge. It also affords a firsthand indigenous perspective on the Nahua past, present, and future in a changing colonial milieu. moreover, chimalpahin’s sources, a rich variety of ancient and contemporary records, give voice to a culture long thought to be silent and vanquished.

primeros memorialesFacsimile editionBy Fray Bernardino de sahagun$185.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-1688-4 · 182 pages

This is a full-color facsimile edition of Primeros Memoriales by Fray bernardino de sahagún and is a valuable document providing great understanding and knowledge of provincial mesoamerican civilization.

primeros memorialespaleography of Nahuatl Text and english Translation By Fray Bernardino de sahagun$85.00s cloth · 978-0-8061-2909-9 · 352 pages

Primeros Memoriales is here published for the first time in its entirety both in the original Nahuatl and in english translation. The volume follows the manuscript order reconstructed for the Primeros Memoriales by Francisco del paso y Troncoso in his 1905-1907 facsimile edition of the collection of sahaguntine manuscripts he called Codices Matritenses.

TeotihuacanAn experiment in livingBy esther Pasztory$49.95s cloth · 978-0-8061-2847-4 · 304 pages

This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged “artistic”—with those of other ancient civilizations, ester pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community’s ideals.

An Archaeological guide to Northern central Americabelize, guatemala, Honduras, and el salvadorBy Joyce Kelly$19.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2861-0 · 352 pages

Tikal, copán, uaxactún - ancient maya cities whose names conjure up romance, mystery, and science all at once. Joyce kelly’s clear descriptions and captivating photographs of these and many other sites will make you want to pack your bags and head for central America. And when you arrive, this guidebook will not let you down.

los paisanosspanish settlers on the Northern Frontier of New spainBy Oakah L. Jones Jr.$29.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2885-6 · 368 pages

little has been written about the colonists sent by spanish authorities to settle the northern frontier of New spain, to stake spain’s claim and serve as a buffer against encroaching French explorers. “los paisanos,” they were called—simple country people who lived by their own labor, isolated, threatened by hostile Indians, and restricted by law from seeking opportunity elsewhere. They built their homes, worked their fields, and became permanent residents.


Aztec WarfareImperial expansion and political controlBy Ross Hassig$26.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2773-6 · 424 pages

In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. because they lacked numerical superiority, faced logistical problems presented by the terrain, and competed with agriculture for manpower, the Aztecs relied as much on threats and the image of power as on military might to subdue enemies and hold them in their orbit. Hassig describes the role of war in the everyday life of the capital, Tenochtitlan.

caudillosDictators in spanish AmericaBy Hugh M. Hamill$24.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2428-5 · 384 pages

In this major revision of the borzoi book Dictatorship in spanish America, editor Hugh Hamill has presented conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves.

An Analytical Dictionary of NahuatlBy Frances Karttunen$34.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2421-6 · 384 pages

This is a comprehensive modern dictionary of the major indigenous language of mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbors. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with europeans, and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl beginning in the mid-sixteenth century and continuing to the present.

Time and reality in the Thought of the maya, 2nd edBy Miguel Leon-Portilla and Francis La Flesche$26.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2308-0 · 254 pages

In this second english-language edition of one of his most notable works, miguel león-portilla explores the maya Indians’ remarkable concepts of time. At the book’s first appearance evon Z. Vogt, curator of middle American ethnology in Harvard university, predicted that it would become “a classic in anthropology,” a prediction borne out by the continuing critical attention given to it by leading scholars.

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maya History and religionBy J. Thompson$29.95 paper · 978-0-8061-2247-2 · 454 pages

In this volume, a distinguished maya scholar seeks to correlate data from colonial writings and observations of the modern Indian with archaeological information in order to extend and clarify the panorama of maya culture.

Women in prehistoryBy Margaret ehrenberg$19.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2237-3 · 208 pages

social attitudes in our culture have led to the assumption that early advances in human knowledge were the achievements of men; the role of women in prehistoric times has been largely overlooked. In this thought-provoking book, however, margaret ehrenberg argues that the true contribution of women especially in the discovery and development of agriculture was much greater than has been acknowledged to date.

Treatise on the Heathen superstitionsTaht Today live Among the Indians Native to This New spain, 1629By Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon$39.95s paper · 978-0-8061-2031-7 · 406 pages

The Treatise of Hernando ruiz de Alarcón is one of the most important surviving documents of early colonial mexico. It was written in 1629 as an aid to roman catholic churchmen in their efforts to root out the vestiges of pre-columbian Aztec religious beliefs and practices. For the student of Aztec religion and culture it is a valuable source of information.

A guide to Ancient maya ruins, 2nd editionBy C. Bruce Hunter$21.95 paper · 978-0-8061-1992-2 · 356 pages

since the publication of the first edition of this work, it has become the standard guide for serious travelers to the great maya sites of mexico, guatemala, and Honduras. In this expanded and updated edition c. bruce Hunter offers an introduction to the culture and history of the maya, taking into account the most recent discoveries and theories about their origins, rise to greatness, and fall. He then takes the reader on a tour through their magnificent cities and ceremonial centers.

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