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Ant. 322M (30280),
Las 324L (40930) Spring 2008 Stross, EPS 2.204
Class TTH
9:30-11 BUR 136
B. Stross Office Hours TTH 11-12:30
& by appt. in EPS 2.204.
bstross@mail.utexas.edu .
TA Chris Loperena Fridays 12:30-2pm in EPS 4.110 cloperena@mail.utexas.edu
Final Exam will be on Wednesday,
May 7 from 2-5 ; room BUR 136
COURSE EVALUATION
SURVEY https://utdirect.utexas.edu/diia/ecis/
Text
TEXT (req) Carmack, Gasco, Gossen. 1996. The
Legacy of Mesoamerica. F 1219 L44 1996 PCL Reserves
*Books to be read - approximately 8 of these must be read as
part of assignment (to be explained in class)
*A. Ariel de Vidas. Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore
*F. Berdan, The Aztecs of
Central Mexico (pb) F1219.73 B47 PCL
*R.L. Berg, Jr., Shwan: A
Highland Zapotec Woman F1221 Z3
B47 PCL
*D. Boremanse, Hach Winik, the Lacandon Maya of Southern Mexico. F 1221 L2 B67 1998 BLAC
W. Bray Everyday
Life of the Aztecs
*B. Chiñas, The Isthmus Zapotec: Women's Roles in Cultural Context. F1221.23
Z462 PCL
J. Cohen, Cooperation
and Community: Economy and
Society in Oaxaca
*I. Clendinnen, Aztecs: An
Interpretation (pb) F 1219.76 S64 C44 1991 PCL Reserves
*C. Eber, Women & Alcohol in a Highland Maya
Town. F 1221 T9 E24 1995 BLAC
*Gaspar Pedro González, A Mayan Life. (La
Otra Cara) Yaxte' Press PM 3912 Z77 G6618 1996 BLAC
*Gaspar Pedro González Return
of the Maya (El Retorno de las Mayas)
Yaxté Books
R. González, Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of
Oaxaca. (pb)
*G. Gossen, Chamulas in
the World of the Sun (pb) F1221 T9 G677 PCL
R. A. Hernández Castillo, Histories and Stories from
Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern
Mexico. (pb)
M. Kearney, The Winds of Ixtepeji. F1221 Z3 K42 PCL
*J. Kennedy, Tarahumara of
the Sierra Madre. (pb) F1221 T25 K47 1978 PCL
*D. de Landa, Yucatan
Before and After the Conquest. (pb)
G 7, 972.Ol5,
M 451 M, no. 2O ; F1376 L24613 1978
PCL
*O. Lewis, Tepoztlán (pb) G917.249 L587T PCL
L J. McClusky, Here Our
Culture is Hard: Stories of Domestic
Violence From a Mayan
Community
in Belize. (pb) [Mopan]
R. J. McGee, Life, Ritual
and Religion Among the Lacandón Maya.
F 1221
L2 M4 1990 PCL Reserves
R.
J. McGee, Watching Lacandon Maya Lives
*B. Myerhoff, Peyote Hunt
(pb) F1221 H9 M9 PCL
*V. Perera and R.D. Bruce, The
Last Lords of Palenque. F1221 L2
P47 1982 PCL Reserves
*J. Nash, In The Eyes of
the Ancestors (pb) F1219.3 S6 N3 UGL
*R. Redfield & A. Villa
Rojas, Chan Kom (pb) F1435.1 C47
R3 1962 PCL
*B. Rosenbaum, With Our
Heads Bowed. HQ 1465 C52 R6 1993 PCL
Stacks
*H. Selby. Zapotec
Deviance. F1221 Z3 S44 LAC
*J. Soustelle, Daily Life
of the Aztecs. (pb) F1219 S723 1970
PCL
*D. Tedlock, Popol Vuh. (pb) F1465 P813 1985 UGL, LAC,
F 1465
P813 1996 PCL Stacks
*E. Vogt, The Zinacantecos
of Mexico. G 97O,49274, V 868 Zin PCL, LAC
*C. Wilson, Crazy
February. (pb) G 8l3, W 692 C PCL, LAC & 813, W69l8C
Lecture Topics and Reading
Assignments
climate, fauna, flora,
geology, hydrography, physiography
(Mexico
map 1, map 2,
map 3,
map 4, map 5)
(Guatemala
map
1, map
2, map 3) (detailed Mexico state maps)
Film
on Thursday 1/17, The Mayo Tribe – Desert Speaks *28 *
Reading: Text CH 1 (1996 ed) or Introduction (2007 ed) and flora and
fauna page
Week 2 CULTURE AREA 1/22, 24
some
shared traits, contiguity
Mesoamerica as a culture area . Kirchhoff,
(Armillas)
Film on Thursday
1/24, The Tree of Life
(VIDCASS
9978 UGLAVC) *30*
Q's )
Reading: Text Ch 3 (1996 or 2007)
Prehistory (Maya Vessel,
Olmec Portal,
Isthmian
Stela)
(earliest
inhabitants, e.i.2 , e.i.3-migrations)
History (seeing the other), (the
colonial caste system).
(Columbus) (Columbus2 longer) (NAFTA) (The
Requerimiento)
Film on Thursday 1/31
: Popol Vuh (Vidcass 1959 UGLAVC)
*60* Q's )
(Tedlock translation of P.V. assigned for week 6
is at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/pvgm/index.htm )
Reading: Text CH. 2,4,5,6 (1996
ed) or Text CH 1, 4, 5,
7 (2007 ed)
Language
distribution (Languages of
Mexico, Languages of
Mexico,
Language characteristics,
culture characteristics
and worldview
Film on Thursday 2/8::
Shunka's Story (Vidcass
6294) *20*
Film on Thursday 2/8::
The Lacandon Maya Balché Ritual
(Vidcass
6290) *40* Q's )
Reading: Text CH. 11, 12 (1996 ed) or CH 11, 6 (2007 ed) and de Landa)
(de
Landa is at: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/ybac/index.htm )
*Mayan diversification (Chart)
Lacandon, clans and
communication. (bibliography) (hach winik pics
1,
2, 3) (Lacandon and the future - Plan Puebla Panama ) (Lacandon website)
*(Yucatec;
relating to nature and supernature, housing, customs)
Film on Thursday, 2/14:
Todos Santos Cuchumatan
(Mam Maya)
(Vidcass 1269 UGLAVC) *41* Q's )
Reading: McGee (or Perera & Bruce or
Redfield & Villa Rojas or McClusky
or
Boremanse)
Huastec, an
outlier. Teenek (teenek pictures 1, 2, 3, 4 -TBA)
Quiche
and the Popol
Vuh. (Maya
Perspectives videos in UGL AV
Library)
Film Thursday, 2/21
: Todos Santos: the Survivors
(VIDCASS 22O2
UGLAVC) *58* Q's )
(( or Discovering
Dominga: VIDCASS 10,578 UGLAVC *57*))
Reading: Popol Vuh and Ariel de Vidas (or B. Tedlock or
Hernandez Castillo)
(Popol Vuh is at http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/pvgm/index.htm
)
Film on Thursday 2/28: Appeals to Santiago
(Tenejapa
VIDCASS 6293 *27*
Q's
Reading:
Vogt (or Gossen, or Nash or Eber or Rosenbaum)
Tzotzil, gossip, insults, and
proverbs *(Slides: Tzeltals and
Tzotzils )
Film Thursday 3/6 : Sacred Games (Chamula Tzotzil)
(VIDCASS 1812
UGLAVC *75*
Q's )
Reading:
Wilson or G.P. Gonzalez (A Maya Life) or G.P. González
(Return
of the Maya)
(Spring break
3/10-15)
- good time to
start working on the 2 page book
report
(due on
last day of class) on a book from
the list: click here.
Tarahumara, long distance
runners, (Tarahumara
and tourism)
(Rarámuri pics 1,
2,
3) alcohol in Indian society
MIDTERM
EXAM on Thursday of Week 9; i.e.. 3/20/08)
(to cover
materials of Weeks 1 through 8)
Reading: J. Kennedy or W. Merrill
(Raramuri Souls)
Huichol, the peyote quest, yarn painting
(links) (article 1,
2)
Film on Thursday 3/29: To Find Our Life *63*
or
((Huichol Sacred Pilgrimage to Wirikuta.))
(VIDCASS 6019 UGLAVC) *29*
((or Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara *51*
))
Aztecs;
worldview, compadrazgo, cosmology
(Quetzalcoatl)
(article-wiki)
Films Thursday 4/5 : Tepoztlan (VIDCASS 9580
UGLAVC) *30*;
The
Tarahumaras (VIDCASS 4900 UGLAVC)
*30* Q's )
Mazatec;
whistle speech, mushrooms, medicine bundles, shamanism.
Film Thursday 4/12: Guenati'za
(Zapotec)
Sueños Binacionales
(Chatino)
To Make the Balance (Vidcass 6292) *33*
Reading: Text Ch 7, 10, 13 (1996 ed) or Text Ch 8, 9, 13
(2007 ed.)
Zapotec,
trade, symbolism, witchcraft, asking for favors,intermediary.
Film Thursday 4/19::
Blossoms of Fire *60* Q's )
Reading: Text Ch. 9 (1996 ed) or Text Ch. 12 (2007 ed) and
(Chiñas, or Selby,
or Berg or González or Cohen)
Huave worldview. (pics 1, 2, 3)
Film Thursday 4/24:
Mayan Voices; American Lives
(Vidcass 4792) *58*
Q's)
Reading: Kearney, (skim first half if available, read
second
half )
Chontal of Oaxaca / Tequistlatec
Film
Thursday 5/1 Ópata palm weavers *27* and/or
Film Thursday 5/1, The Tree of Knowledge *30*
(Vidcass 6990)
*27* Q's )
You should complete the weekly reading assignments and prepare
for exams by going over your notes on both lectures and readings. If puzzled by
the fact that the lectures and the readings are complementary rather than
purely mutually reinforcing or redundant, click here. This link also explains the rationale for
what at first appears to be a large number of books, from which the individual
is required to read only 8 or so.
The course grade will be based primarily on a midterm
(about 31%) and a final examination (about 62%).
An example of the format of the exams can be found here. Another consideration will be class
attendance, Attendance
is expected, and missing two classes can lower one's average by as much as a
half grade. There will
be a short book report, based on a book from the list at this link: book
report (due last class day)
Exams will contain both objective and essay questions (with
an edge to the objective).
The final exam will be longer than the midterm and
comprehensive (i.e. it will include material tested on the midterm as
well as from the rest of the semester), and will count twice as much. The final exam will be held at the officially scheduled time and place (Final Exam will be on Wednesday,
May 7 from 2-5 ; BUR 136). Click here
for a sample of the final exam.
BE
ABLE TO IDENTIFY - For Midterm
Achiote, Amaranth, Anona, Atitlan, Atlatl, Atole (or
Atol), Balché, Rio Balsas, Bark-cloth, Benito Juarez, Bor, Bolim, Brocket Deer,
Cargo System, Caribal, Ceiba, Cenote, Censer, Chapala, Chayote, Chiapas,
Chicha, Chilam Balam, Cabracan, Cocijo, Co-Essence, Comal, Complementary
Dualism, Copal, Chichimec, Chinampa, Diego
de Landa, Divination, Eagle Dance, Ejido, Guanabana, Guava, Gucumatz,
Hachakyum, Hero Twins, Hetzmek' (or Placing-Astride-the-Hip), Huastec, Hunahpu,
HunBatz', Hun Chouen, Indigo, Kayum, Kin, Kisin (or Quisin), Lacandón, Ladino,
La Venta, Lerma-Santiago, Lintsi', Macro-Oto-Manguean, Maguey, Malinche, Mam,
Manioc, Metate, Mexica, Monkey Twins, Motagua River, "Mother of
Hand", Muxi-maam (or Mushi-mam), Nagual, Nahuatl, Olmec, Onen, Orizaba,
Palenque, Panuco, Papaloapan, Peccary, Peñon Woman, Petate, Peten, Pinole (or
Pinol), Popocatepetl, Popol Vuh, Porfirio Díaz, Pozole (or Pozol), Pulque, Quiche, Ramon Nuts, Subin, Tamal (or
Tamale), Teenek, Temascal, Tenochtitlan, Teotihuacan, Tepexpan Man, Tlaloc,
Tohil, Toltecs, Totonac, Tonal, Trivet, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Usumacinta, Veracruz,
Voladores, Vucub Caquix, Xbalanque, Xibalba, Xmucane, Xoloitzcuintli, Xquic,
Xtabay, Zacahuil, Zapote, Zinacantan, Zipacna.
IDENTIFY
- For Final (include above words as
well)
Aire (or Aigre), Amate-Fig, Antojo, Aztec,
Cabecera, Chaneque, Chatino, Chinantec, Chipil, Cipactli, Coa,
Coatlicue, Compadrazgo, Condoy (or Kondoy), Coral
Bean, Deer-Maize-Peyote Complex, Divination, Dutuburi, Espanto, Esquiate,
Go-between, Horizontal Loom, Hot & Cold Classification, Hauve/Wabi,
Huehuete, Huichol, Huitzilopochtli, Indigenismo, La Llorona, Mara'akame, Matlacigua,
Mazatec,
Mexica, Michael Kearney, W.J. McGee, Medicine Bundle, Mexica, Mictlantecuhtli,
Mije (or Mixe), Mixtec, Muina, Nanahuatl, Nixtamal, Norawa, Oaxaca, Oaxaca
Chontal, Peyote, Pingo, Pochteca, Popoluca, Popo, Quetzalcoatl, Rain Dwarf,
Seri, Shaman, Slash & Burn / Swidden, Structural Replication in Zinacantan,
Susto, Tarahumara, Tarascan, Tecciztecatl, Tehuana, Tepache, Tepoztlan,
Tequistlatec, Tesgüinada, Tezcatlipoca,
Tlaloc, Tlazolteotl, Toloache, Whistle Speech, Wirikuta, Xolotl, Yacatecuhtli,
Zapotec, Zoque.
As an aid to study, if you like you can print out this Mexico map
and locate
each indigenous society spoken of
in the lectures on it, at least putting it in the correct state. It would also be
helpful to locate some of the
rivers, lakes, towns, and archaeological sites, as well as volcanoes and
islands.
Here is a list
you might make use of for both the indigenous groups and the other features.
If you want to explore a topic in
more depth, or make up for a missed class, here is a listing
of supplementary
readings, arranged topically by the week.
ADDITIONAL BOOKS WITH USEFUL INFORMATION (not part of
assignments)
R.M. Carmack (ed.) Harvest
of Violence. (pb) F1435.3 P7 H37
1988 LAC
J. Harbury, Bridge
of Courage. (pb)
B. Tedlock, Time
and the Highland Maya (pb) F 1465.2 Q5 T43 1992 PCL Reserves
S. Whiteford and
Whiteford, Crossing Currents.
K. Warren, Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan Maya Activism
in Guatemala.
There are many internet sites with
information relevant to this course.
The complete Chilam
Balam of Chumayel by R. Roys
The
Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA)
has downloadable narratives in various Mesoamerican languages,
and other Latin American Indigenous languages.
Pueblos
Indígenas de Mexico Serie Mongrafías
monographs on Indigenous communities
INI maps
of Mexico w/ indigenous languages reported by areal density
Mexico-Speakers of
Indigenous Languages
Images of Mexican Art and History More
Images
Mayan Calendar (I. Van Laningham) Maya
Software
Former Aztlan site with some excellent article links
Historical timeline for
Mexico not all the links are
equally
useful or accurate, but useful
overall
Webpage for
Guatemalan history to 1970
Article
on Shamanism by James Dow
News of indigenous activities and
rights are prominent
among the interests of the Mexico Solidarity Network
Chiapas Independent Media
Center news of indigenous and
other activities in Chiapas and
elsewhere in Mexico
Independent Media Network, Mexico as its name indicates, a
network of independent media, for
news that is relatively
independent of government and
(other) corporate interests
Chiapas 95 The list-serve (and its relatives
and descendants)
documenting news and debate
regarding indigenous
and other grassroots action in
Mexico.
ChiapasLink Zapatista Contacts and Resources
Internet sites also host some
important journals relating to
indigenous Mesoamericans:
