Plant life of a desert archipelago : flora of the Sonoran islands in the Gulf of California / by Felger, Richard Stephen

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Plant life of a desert archipelago : flora of the Sonoran islands in the Gulf of California / by Felger, Richard Stephen

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The beginnings of Mesoamerican civilization : inter-regional interaction and the Olmec / by Rosenswig, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge in an Archipelago of Complexity -- Mesoamerica's First Style Horizons and the "Olmec Problem" -- Settlement Patterns and Architecture -- Diet, Food Processing and Feasting -- Representation and Aesthetics -- Inter-regional Exchange Patterns -- Data and Expectations.…”

On desert shores : archaeology and history of the western Midriff Islands in the Gulf of California / by Bowen, Thomas, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…A Tour of the Islands -- The San Lorenzo Archipelago -- Isla Ángel de la Guarda -- Satellite Islands of Isla Ángel de la Guarda -- The Outlying Islands -- Part II. …”
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The beginnings of Mesoamerican civilization : inter-regional interaction and the Olmec / by Rosenswig, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 2. Knowledge in an archipelago of complexity -- a core / periphery perspective -- Gift exchange and social debt -- Conspicuous consumption and social capital -- Persuasive display and social power -- Local cohesion created through the production of gifts -- Knowledge Kula and social inequality -- An archipelago of complexity -- Trobriand Islanders -- Germanic Barbarians -- Early Bronze Age Cyclades -- Chavín Horizon Peru -- 3. …”
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The beginnings of Mesoamerican civilization : inter-regional interaction and the Olmec / by Rosenswig, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 2. Knowledge in an archipelago of complexity -- a core / periphery perspective -- Gift exchange and social debt -- Conspicuous consumption and social capital -- Persuasive display and social power -- Local cohesion created through the production of gifts -- Knowledge Kula and social inequality -- An archipelago of complexity -- Trobriand Islanders -- Germanic Barbarians -- Early Bronze Age Cyclades -- Chavín Horizon Peru -- 3. …”
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Unrevolutionary Mexico : the birth of a strange dictatorship / by Gillingham, Paul, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Archipelagos of Power: Guerrero -- A Rich Place, a Poor State: Veracruz -- Peasants, Presidents, and Carpetbaggers -- Party, Peace, and Caciquismo -- Elections, Fraud, and Democracy -- Law and Order in México Profundo -- Development, Corruption, and the Demands of the State -- Talking about a Revolution -- Why Mexico Did Not Become a Military Dictatorship.…”
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The invisible war : indigenous devotions, discipline, and dissent in colonial Mexico / by Tavárez, David Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking indigenous devotions in central Mexico -- Before 1571 : disciplinary humanism and exemplary punishment -- Local cosmologies and secular extirpators in Nahua communities, 1571-1662 -- Secular and civil campaigns against native devotions in Oaxaca, 1571-1660 -- Literate idolatries : clandestine Nahua and Zapotec ritual texts in the seventeenth century -- After 1660 : punitive experiments against idolatry -- In the care of God the father : northern Zapotec ancestral observances, 1691-1706 -- From idolatry to maleficio : reform, factionalism, and institutional conflicts in the eighteenth century -- A colonial archipelago of faith.…”

The invisible war : Indigenous devotions, discipline, and dissent in colonial Mexico / by Tavárez, David Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking Indigenous devotions in central Mexico -- Before 1571 : disciplinary humanism and exemplary punishment -- Local cosmologies and secular extirpators in Nahua communities, 1571-1662 -- Secular and civil campaigns against native devotions in Oaxaca, 1571-1660 -- Literate idolatries : clandestine Nahua and Zapotec ritual texts in the seventeenth century -- After 1660 : punitive experiments against idolatry -- In the care of God the father : northern Zapotec ancestral observances, 1691-1706 -- From idolatry to maleficio : reform, factionalism, and institutional conflicts in the eighteenth century -- A colonial archipelago of faith.…”
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Early Mesoamerican social transformations : archaic and formative lifeways in the Soconusco region.

Table of Contents: “…SEVEN A History of Disaster and Cultural Change inthe Coatán River Drainage of the Soconusco, Chiapas, MexicoEIGHT La Blanca and the Soconusco Middle Formative; Part Three Beyond the Individual Study Area; NINE Early Formative Transitions in Settlement and Subsistence at Chiquiuitan, Guatemala; TEN Jocotal Settlement Patterns, Salt Production, and Pacific Coast Interactions; ELEVEN An Early Mesoamerican Archipelago of Complexity; TWELVE Concluding Thoughts; Index.…”
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Coves of departure : field notes from the Sea of Cortez / by Farnsworth, John Seibert

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