BOOK REPORT BOOKS ON MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIANS
(Pick a book with no asterisk from this list to do a 2 page
double spaced book report due on the last day of class – I'm flexible
about how you demonstrate that you've read the book; you can do a report, a
review, some thoughtful discussion of questions that the book raised. )
Aguirre Beltran, Gonzalo. l958. Cuijla,
Esbozo Etnográfico de un Pueblo Negro.
Alcorn,
Janis l984. Huastec Mayan
Ethnobotany. (Huastec / Teenek)
Ariel de Vidas,
Anath 2004 Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore:
The Culture of Marginality Among the Teenek of Mexico
(Huastec / Teenek)
Arizpe, Lourdes
1973. Parentesco y
Economía en una Sociedad Nahua.
(Nahuatl)
Bailey, Helen
Miller. l958. Santa Cruz of the Etla Hills.
Beals, Ralph
L. l933. The Acaxee: a Mountain Tribe of Durango and Sinaloa.
(Acaxee)
Beals, Ralph
L. 1945. The Ethnology
of the Western Mixe (Mixe)
Beals, Ralph
L. 1946. Cheran: A Sierra Tarascan Village
(Purépecha / Tarasco)
Belshaw, Michael.
l967. A Village Economy: Land and People of Huecorio. (Purépecha / Tarascan )
Bennett, W. and
R.M. Zingg 1935. The Tarahumara.
*Berdan,
Frances l982. The Aztecs of
Central Mexico.
*Berg, Richard
L. Jr., 1976. Shwan: A Highland Zapotec Woman
(Zapotec)
Bevan,
Bernard. l938. The Chinantec and Their Habitat. (Chinantec)
Blom,
Gertrude. l986. Bearing Witness. (Lacandón)
Brand, Donald
F. l951. Quiroga: A Mexican Municipio. (Purépecha / Tarascan)
Brandes, Stanley.
1987. Power and Persuasion. U. of Penn. Press
Bricker, Victoria
R. l973. Ritual Humor
in Highland Chiapas. (Tzotzil)
Bricker,
Victoria R. 1981 The Indian Christ, The Indian King.
(Yucatec)
Brundage,
Burr 1985. The Jade
Steps. (Aztec)
Brundage, Burr
19 . The Fifth Sun.
(Nahuatl)
Bunzel,
Ruth. l952. Chichicastenango: a Guatemalan Village. (K'iche' / Quiché)
Burns, Allan
F. 1983. An Epoch of
Miracles. (Yucatec)
Butterworth,
Douglas. 1975. Tilantongo; Comunidad Mixteca en
Transicion. (Mixtec)
Cancian,
Frank. l965. Economics and
Prestige in a Maya Community. (Tzotzil)
Cancian,
Frank. l972. Change and
Uncertainty in a Peasant Economy: The Maya Corn Farmers in Zinacantan. (Tzotzil)
Carmack,
Robert. l98l. The Quiche
Mayas of Utatlan. (K'iche' / Quiché)
Carmack,
Robert, (ed.) 1988. Harvest of Violence.
(Quiché, Cakchiquel, etc.)
Carmack, Robert
M. 1995. Rebels of
Highland Guatemala: The Quiché-Mayas of
Momostenango. (K'iche' / Quiché)
Chiñas,
Beverly. 1973, l983. The
Isthmus Zapotecs: Women's Roles in
Cultural Context.
Chiñas,
Beverly. 1993. La Zandunga.
(Isthmus Zapotec)
Cohen, Jeffrey
H. Cooperation and Community (Zapotecs, Oaxaca)
Colby, B.N. and
Lore M. Colby. l98l. The Daykeeper: the Life and Discourse of an Ixil Diviner. (Ixil Maya)
Colby, B.N.,
and P. Van den Berghe. l969. Ixil Country. (Ixil Maya)
Collier,
D. l976. Fields of
Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas.
(Tzotzil)
Collier,
Jane. l973. Law and
Social Change in Zinacantan. (Tzotzil)
Coyle, Philip
E. 2001. Náyari History,
Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash. (Cora)
Crumrine, N.
Ross. l983. The Mayo
Indians of Sonora. (Mayo)
Daly, John and
Margarita. 1977. Mixteco
de Santa María Peñoles.
(Mixtec)
De la Fuente, Julio.
1949, 1977. Yalalag:
Una Villa Zapoteca Serrana.
(Zapotec)
De Vos, Jan
2002. Una Tierra Para
Sembrar Sueños: Historia Reciente de la
Selva Lacandona. (Lacandón)
Diaz, May
N. l97?. Tonala. (Mestizo)
Dinerman, Ina R. l974. Los Tarascos: Campesinos y Artesanos de Michoacan
Driver, Harold, and Wilhelmine Driver. l963. Ethnography
and Acculturation
of the
Chichimeca-Jonaz of Northeast Mexico. (Chichimeca-Jonaz)
Dow, James
1986. The Shaman's Touch: Otomí Indian
Symbolic Healing. (Otomí)
Ducey, Michael
T.
2004 A Nation of Villages: Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca
1750-1850.
El Guindi, Fadwa
1987. The Myth of
Ritual. (Zapotec)
Elmendorf,
Mary 1976. Nine Mayan
Women: A Village Faces Change.
Farriss, Nancy
1984. Maya Society Under Colonial Rule. (Yucatec)
Favre, Henri
l974. Cambio y
Continuidad entre los Mayas de los Altos de Chiapas.
Feinberg,
Benjamin 2003. The Devil's Book of Culture. (Mazatec)
Fischer, Edward
F. and Carol Hendrickson 2002. Tecpán Guatemala:
A Modern Maya Town In Global and Local Context. (Kaqchikel / Cakchiquel)
Fontana, B.L.
Tarahumara. (Tarahumara)
Foster, George M.
l94O. Notes on the Popoluca of Veracruz. (Sierra
Popoluca)
Foster, George
l942. A Primitive Mexican Economy.
(Sierra Popoluca)
Foster,
George. 1948. Empire's
Children: The People of Tzintzuntzan. (Purépecha
/ Mestizo)
Foster, George.
1967. Tzintzuntzan. (Purépecha / Mestizo )
Friedlander,
Judith. l975. Being an
Indian in Hueyapan: A Study of Forced
Identity in Contemporary Mexico.
(Ex-Nahuatl)
Friedrich,
Paul l97O. Agrarian
Revolt in a Mexican Village. (Purépecha)
Friedrich, Paul 1986.
The Princes of
Naranja. (Purépecha)
Fromm, Erich
and Michael Maccoby l97O. Social Character in a Mexican Village.
Gabbert,
Wolfgang. 2004. Becoming Maya: Ethnicity and Social Inequality in Yucatan Since 1500. (Yucatec)
Galinier, Jacques.
1987. Pueblos de la
Sierra Madre: Etnografía de la
Comunidad Otomí. (Otomí)
Gillin,
John. l95l. The Culture
of Security in San Carlos.
Gillin,
John. l958. San Luis
Jilotepeque.
*González, Roberto J.
2001. Zapotec Science: Farming
and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
*Gossen,
Gary. l974. Chamulas in
the World of the Sun. (Tzotzil)
Greenberg,
James B. l981. Santiago's Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics. (Chatino)
Greenberg, James B.
1989. Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico.
(Chatino)
Grimes,
Kimberly M. 1998. Crossing Borders: Changing Social Identities in Southern Mexico.
(Oaxaca)
Guiteras-Holmes, Calixta. 1961. Perils of the Soul: The World View of aTzotzil Indian.
(Tzotzil)
Haviland,
John l982. Gossip,
Reputation, and Knowledge in Zinacantan. (Tzotzil)
*Hernández Castillo, R. Aída. 2001. Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexico.
(Mam)
Hervik, Peter 2002.
Mayan People Within and
Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in Yucatan (Yucatec)
Hill, Jane N. and
Kenneth C. 1986. Speaking Mexicano: Dynamics of Syncretic Language in Central Mexico.
(Nahuatl)
Hill, Robert
and John Monaghan. 1987. Sacapulas (Sacapultec)
Holland,
William R. l963. Medicina Maya en los Altos de Chiapas. (Tzotzil)
Hunn, Eugene
S. 2008. A Zapotec Naural History.
(Zapotec)
Hunt, Eva 1977.
Transformations of
the Hummingbird. (Cuicatec, Tzotzil)
Ichon,
Alain. l973. La Religion
de los Los Totonacos de la Sierra. I.N.I.
Ingham, John
1984. Mary, Michael and Lucifer.
Iwanska, Alicja.
l97l. Purgatory and Utopia: A Mazahua Indian Village of Mexico.
*Kearney,
Michael. l972. The Winds of Ixtepeji.
(Zapotec)
Kelley, Jane
Holden. 1977 Yaqui Women:
Contemporary Life Histories.(263
pp.)
Kelly,
Isabel l956. Santiago
Tuxtla, Veracruz Culture and Health.
Kelly, Isabel. l965.
Folk Practices in
North Mexico: Birth Customs, Folk Medicine, and Spiritualism in the Laguna Zone.
Kelly, Isabel,
and Angel Palerm. l952. The Tajin Totonac: History, Subsistence,
Shelter, and Technology.
*Kennedy, John
G. l978. Tarahumara
of the Sierra Madre.
Knab, Timothy J. (ed.) 2003. A Scattering of Jades:
Stories, Poems, and Prayers of the Aztecs.
Knab, Timothy
J. 2004. The Dialogue of
Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, Curing,
and the Modern Aztec Underworld.
La Farge, Oliver
l947. Santa Eulalia: The Religion of a
Cuchumatan Town. (Q'anjobal / Kanhobal)
La Farge,
Oliver and Douglas Byers l931. The Year Bearers People. (Jakaltek / Jacaltec)
*D. de Landa, Yucatan Before and After the Conquest. (Yucatec)
Leslie,
Charles. l96O. Now We are Civilized: A Study of the World View of the Zapotec
Indians of Mitla, Oaxaca. (Zapotec)
Lewis,
Oscar. l95l.
Life in a Mexican Village. (Nahuatl)
Lewis,
Oscar 1959. Five
Families. (Nahuatl)
Lewis,
Oscar l96O. Tepoztlan:
Village in Mexico. (Nahuatl)
Lewis,
Oscar 1961. The Children
of Sanchez.
Lewis, Oscar
l964. Pedro Martinez.
Lipp,
Frank The Mixe of Oaxaca. (Mixe)
Madsen,
William. l96O. The Virgin's children:
Life in an Aztec Village Today. (Nahuatl)
McBryde,
F.W. l934. Solola, a
Guatemalan Town and Cakchiquel Market-center.
*McGee, R.
Jon 1990 Life, Ritual
and Religion Among the Lacandón Maya. (Lacandón)
McGee, R. Jon 2003. Watching Lacandon Maya Lives. (Lacandón)
McGee, William
J. 1898. The Seri
Indians (Seri)
McClusky, Laura
J. 2001 Here Our
Culture is Hard: Stories of Domestic
Violence From a Mayan Community in Belize.(Mopan)
Menchu,
Rigoberta 1984. I Rigoberta
Menchu: an Indian woman in Guatemala. (K'iche' / Quiché)
Merrill,
William 1988 Rarámuri Souls
(Tarahumara)
Moises, R,,
Kelley, J. H. and W.C. Holden. 1971. A Yaqui life: a Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian. (Yaqui)
Miller, Walter
S. 1956. Cuentos Mixes. (Mixe)
Monaghan,
John 1995. The Covenants
With Earth and Rain: Exchange:
Sacrifice, and Revelation
in Mixtec Sociality (Mixtec)
Montoya Briones, Jose de Jesus. l964.
Atla:
Etnografia de Un Pueblo Nahuatl. (Aztec)
*Myerhoff,
Barbara. l974. Peyote Hunt.
(Huichol)
Nader,
Laura. l964. Talea and
Juquila: a Comparison of Zapotec Social Organization. (Zapotec)
*Nader, Laura 1990.
Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain
Village. (Zapotec)
Nahmad,
Salomon. l965. Los Mixes. (Mixe)
*Nash,
June. l97O. In the Eyes
of the Ancestors. (Tzeltal)
Nash,
Manning l958. Machine Age Maya.
Nutini,
Hugo. l968. San
Bernardino Contla: Marriage and Family
Structure in a Tlaxcalan Municipio. (Nahuatl)
Nutini, Hugo.
1988. Todos Santos in
Rural Tlaxcala. (Nahuatl)
Oakes,
Maud. l951. The Two
Crosses of Todos Santos. (Mam)
Oettinger,
Marion. 1980. Una Comunidad Tlapaneca. (Tlapanec)
Orellana, Sandra l984. The Tzutujil
Mayas: Continuity and Change, l25O-
l63O. (Tzutujil)
Parsons, Elsie
Clews. l936. Mitla: Town
of the Souls. (Zapotec)
Pennington,
Campbell W. l963. The
Tarahumara of Mexico: Their Environment and Material Culture. (Tarahumara)
Pennington,
Campbell W. 1969. The Tepehuan. (Tepehuan)
*Perera, Victor
and Robert D. Bruce. l984. The Last Lords of Palenque. (Lacandón)
Pozas A., Ricardo.
l947. Monografia de
Chamula. (Tzotzil)
Pozas A., Ricardo.
l962. Juan, the Chamula. (Tzotzil)
Ravicz, Robert.
l965. Organización
Social de los Mixtecos.
(Mixtec)
Reck, Gregory
C. l976. In the Shadow
of Tlaloc (Nahuatl)
*Redfield,
Robert. l93O. Tepoztlan: A
Mexican Village. (Nahuatl)
*Redfield, Robert,
and A. Villa Rojas. l934. Chan Kom: A Maya Village
(Yucatec)
Reina, Ruben E.
l966. The Law of the Saints: a
Pokomam Pueblo and its Community Culture.
Romanucci-Ross,
Lola 1986. Conflict,
Violence and Morality in a Mexican Village.
Romney, Kimball,
and Romaine Romney. l966. The Mixtecans of Juxtlahuaca, Mexico. (Mixtec)
Rosenbaum, Brenda.
1993. With Our Heads Bowed. (Tzotzil)
Saler,
Benson. l96O. The Road from
El Palmar: Change, Continuity, and Conservatism
in a Quiche Community. (Quiché)
Salinas Pedraza, Jesus and H. Russell Bernard. l982. The Otomi: Volume I: Geography And Fauna.
Sandstrom,
Alan 1991. Corn Is Our
Blood. (Nahuat)
*Selby,
Henry l974. Zapotec Deviance. (Zapotec)
Sexton, James
(ed.) l981. Son of Tecun Uman: A Maya Indian Tells
His Life Story. (Tzutuhjil)
Sexton,
James (ed.) 1985. Campesino: The Diary of a Guatemalan Indian.
(Tzutuhil)
Sexton, James (ed.) 198 . Ignacio. (Tzutuhil)
Siverts,
Henning. l968. Oxchuc. (Tzeltal)
Spicer,
E.H. l954. Potam, A
Yaqui Village in Sonora. (Yaqui)
Spores,
Ronald l967. The Mixtec
Kings and their People. (Mixtec)
Spores,
Ronald l984. The Mixtecs
in Ancient and Colonial Times. (Mixtec)
*Soustelle,
Jacques l96l. Daily Life of
the Aztecs. (Nahuatl)
Stephen,
Lynn 1991. Zapotec women.
(Zapotec)
Sullivan, Paul.
1989. Unfinished Conversations (Yucatec)
Taggart,
J.M. Nahuat Myth and Social Structure.
(Nahuatl)
Tax, Sol. l952. Penny Capitalism: A Guatemalan Indian Economy.
(Kaqchikel / Cakchiquel)
Tedlock,
Barbara. l992. Time and the Highland Maya (Revised Ed.).
Thompson, J.
Eric S. l93O.
Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras.(Mopan)
Thompson, Richard Allen. 1974. The Winds of Tomorrow: Social Change in a
Maya Town. (Yucatec)
Tozzer, Alfred M.
l9O7. A Comparative Study of the Mayas and the
Lacandones.
Tumin,
Melvin. l946. San Luis Jilotepeque: A
Guatemalan Village.
Turner,
Paul. l972. The Highland
Chontal. (Tequistlatec)
Valladares, L.A.
l957. El Hombre y el
Maiz: Etnografia e Etnopsicologia de
Colotenango, Guatemala.
Villa Rojas,
Alfonso. l945.
The Maya of East
Central Quintana Roo. (Yucatec)
Vogt, Evon
Z. l969. Zinacantan. (Tzotzil)
*Vogt, Evon
Z. l97O. The
Zinacantecos of Mexico (Tzotzil)
Vogt, Evon
Z. l976. Tortillas for
the Gods. (Tzotzil)
Wagley,
Charles. l94l. Economics of a Guatemalan Village. (Mam)
Wagley,
Charles. l949. Social and Religious Life of a Guatemalan Village.
(Mam)
Warren,
Kay 1978. The Symbolism
of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town
Watanabe,
John 1992. Maya Saints
and Souls in a Changing World (Mam)
Whitecotton,
J. l977. The Zapotecs:
Princes, Priests, and Peasants. (Zapotec)
Williams Garcia, Roberto. l963. Los
Tepehuas. (Tepehua)
Wisdom,
Charles. l94O. The Chorti Indians of Guatemala. (Chortí Maya)
Yetman,
David. 1988. Where the
Desert Meets the Sea. (Seri)
Young,
James 1981. Medical
Choice in a Mexican Village. (Purépecha / Tarasco )
Zantwijk, Rudolf A.M. van. l96O. Los
Indigenas de Milpa Alta.
(Nahua / Aztec)
Zingg, Robert
M. 2004. Huichol
Mythology.
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