Mesoamerican Indian: References & Edit History
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Ethnographic materials include Ralph L. Beals, Ethnology of the Western Mixe (1945, reprinted 1973); George M. Foster, Empire’s Children: The People of Tzintzuntzan (1948, reprinted 1973); Robert Redfield, A Village That Chose Progress: Chan Kom Revisited (1950, reissued 1970); Oscar Lewis, Life in a Mexican Village: Tepoztlán Restudied (1951, reissued 1963); William Madsen, The Virgin’s Children: Life in an Aztec Village Today (1960); Evon Z. Vogt, Zinacantán: A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas (1969); Phillip Baer and William R. Merrifield, Two Studies on the Lacandones of Mexico (1971); Robert Wasserstrom, Class and Society in Central Chiapas (1983), on the Zinacantán and Chamula; Walter F. Morris, Jr., and Jeffrey J. Foxx, Living Maya (1987), also on modern peoples in Chiapas; Robert M. Carmack (ed.), Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis (1988), on the effect of violence on the indigenous peoples; Carol A. Smith and Marilyn M. Moors (eds.), Guatemalan Indians and the State, 1540 to 1988 (1990); Macduff Everton, The Modern Maya: A Culture in Transition (1991), a heavily illustrated essay on the Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula; Richard R. Wilk, Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life Among the Kekchi Maya in Belize (1991); and W. George Lovell, Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500–1821, rev. ed. (1992).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Nature Communications - Demographic History of Indigenous Populations in Mesoamerica Based on mtDNA Sequence Data. | May 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California Press - Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos - Introduction: Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States. | Jan 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature Communications - Demographic History of Indigenous Populations in Mesoamerica Based on mtDNA Sequence Data. | Jul 15, 2024 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 14, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Indian Empires - Indian Empires. | Apr 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Desert USA - Mesoamerica. | Apr 01, 2016 | ||
| Classification of Tlapanec languages brought up to date. | Sep 10, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Abya Yala - Native Web - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World. | Nov 16, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Abya Yala - Native Web - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World. | Nov 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 28, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 09, 2001 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 24, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Aug 31, 1998 |