The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America: Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories

Robert M. Carmack

doi:10.5771/9781498558976

Summary

In The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America, Robert Carmack focuses on K’iche’ natives of Guatemala, Masayan peoples of Nicaragua, and the native peoples of Buenos Aires and Costa Rica. Starting with Christopher Columbus’ proclaimed “discovery” of Central America, Carmack illustrates the Central American native peoples’ dramatic struggles for survival, native languages, and unique communities and states. Carmack draws on the fieldwork that he has conducted over the past fifty years to highlight the diversity of the Central American peoples, cultures, and histories, and to explain their significance relative to other native peoples of the world. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, and sociology

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5896-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5897-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 142
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. COLUMBUS ENCOUNTERS THE MESOAMERICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PEOPLES No access
2. NATIVE PEOPLES OF VERAGUA No access
3. CENTRAL AMERICAN GEOGRAPHIC, ECOLOGICAL, AND NATURAL FEATURES No access
4. Major Ecological Features of the Region No access
5. Highland Regional Features No access
6. Lowland Regional Features No access
7. Unique Isthmus Regional Features No access
1. THE NORTHERN REGION No access
2. THE MIDDLE REGION No access
3. THE LOWER REGION No access
4. HISTORICAL SUMMARIES OF THE THREE CENTRAL AMERICAN REGIONS No access
5. Pre-Hispanic Peoples No access
6. COLONIAL PEOPLES No access
7. MODERN CENTRAL AMERICAN PEOPLES No access
1. STATE SOCIETIES OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AMERICA No access
2. CHIEFDOM SOCIETIES OF MIDDLE AND LOWER CENTRAL AMERICA No access
3. TRIBAL SOCIETIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA No access
4. REGIONAL DIVISIONS BETWEEN CENTRAL AMERICAN PEOPLES AT SPANISH CONTACT No access
1. COMPLEXITY OF MEXICO’S MESOAMERICAN WORLD No access
2. MESOAMERICA AS A WORLD-SYSTEM No access
3. MESOAMERICAN PEOPLES IN CENTRAL AMERICA Mayas of the Northern Region No access
4. Gulf Coast Native Peoples No access
5. South Pacific Coastal Peoples No access
6. Caribbean Coastal Peoples No access
7. Other Mesoamerican Peripheral Peoples No access
8. CENTRAL AMERICANS WITHIN THE MESOAMERICAN WORLD-SYSTEM No access
1. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES No access
2. K’ICHE’-MAYAN SOCIO-CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS No access
3. MAJOR K’ICHE’-MAYAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES No access
4. POST-HISPANIC K’ICHE’ ETHNOHISTORY No access
1. PRE-HISPANIC NATIVE PEOPLES OF NICARAGUA No access
2. COLONIAL MASAYA No access
3. MODERN MASAYA No access
4. MASAYA AND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION No access
1. THE ABORIGINAL BUENOS AIRES AREA No access
2. THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD No access
3. BUENOS AIRES OF CONTEMPORARY COSTA RICA No access
4. NATIVE PEOPLES OF BUENOS AIRES No access
1. HISTORICAL LEGACIES FROM SPANISH CONQUEST TO THE PRESENT No access
2. Legacy of the Spanish Conquest No access
3. Legacy of the Colonial Period No access
4. Legacy of the Modern Period No access
5. Contemporary Cultural Legacy No access
Bibliography No access Pages 125 - 134
Index No access Pages 135 - 140
About the Author No access Pages 141 - 142