Prof. Anthony P. Andrews
Office: College Hall 212
(x4327)
Office Hours: Wednesday, 1-3
andrews@ncf.edu
Spring 2008
Anthropology Lab
Tues & Fri: 12:30-1:50
http://faculty.ncf.edu/andrews
Syllabus available at website above
This is a seminar on the Post-Conquest cultures of Mesoamerica. It will cover a variety of issues, from the impact of the Spanish conquest to studies of peasant communities and contemporary urban society. Some general background information will be presented in lectures; however, the primary focus will be on class discussion of the readings and ongoing research projects. Participants will be expected to keep abreast of the reading assignments. Evaluation will be based on class participation, class presentations and a research paper.
Each participant, in consultation with the instructor, will select any topic of his or her choice that is related to the subject matter of the course. The topic may cover a geographical area (e.g., Oaxaca, Guatemalan Highlands), a particular ethnic group (e.g., Huichol, Quiché), a particular institution (e.g., the cargo system, compadrazgo), an important historic event (e.g., a native uprising, the abolition of encomiendas, land reform) or any other subject pertinent to Mesoamerican history and ethnography. The topic should be researched in depth; a compilation of the available information and a summary of the major issues pertaining to the subject should form the core of the report; to this core, the researcher will be expected to add his or her own analysis and evaluation of our present understanding of the subject.
Seminar participants should select their research topic and clear it with the instructor during the month of February. Volumes 6-8 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians are an excellent source for topics. A one-page outline and list of references will be due the last class before Spring Break; at that time, each participant will make a progress report to the class. Further progress reports will continue throughout the semester, and final presentations of project results will be scheduled the last week of classes. The final written report -- 15 to 20 pages, plus references, typed double-spaced -- will be due the last day of class. A guideline for citation procedure and formatting of the list of references is attached.
1997 The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town.
2007 The Legacy of Mesoamerica. History and Culture of a Native American Civilization. [2nd Edition]
1997 The Isthmus Zapotecs: A Matrifocal Culture of Mexico. [2nd edition]
2007 The Course of Mexican History. [8th edition]
1989 Distant Neighbors. A Portrait of the Mexicans.
1967-69 Volumes 6-9
1996 I Saw a City Invincible. Urban Portraits of Latin America.
1983 Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica.
1980 Yucatán. A World Apart.
1961 The Labyrinth of Solitude.
1961 Peasant Society: A Reader.
Note: ER = Electronic Reserves
Carmack et al: Chapters 1-3.
Riding: Chapters 1 and 2.
1961 The Labyrinth of Solitude: Chapters 2-4 [ER]
Meyer et al: Chapters 6-7.
Carmack et al: Chapter 4.
Meyer et al: Chapters 8-14.
Carmack et al: Chapter 5.
1983 Spaniards & Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica. Read articles by Farriss, Jones, Wasserstrom, & MacLeod. [ER]
Meyer at: Chapters 15-21.
Carmack et al: Chapter 7: 255-64.
1997 Brief Review of the Caste War of Yucatán. Saastún, 0 (1): 4-18. [ER]
Meyer et al: Chapters 22-25
Carmack et al: Chapter 7: 264-95
1983 Whose Caste War? Indians, Ladinos and the Chiapas "Caste War" of 1869. In Spaniards & Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica (M. J. MacLeod & R. Wasserstrom, eds.): 127-68. [ER]
1982 Family Elites in a Boom-and-Bust Economy. The Molinas and Peóns of Porfirian Yucatán. Hispanic American Historical Review, 62 (2): 224-53. [ER]
1909 The Slaves of Yucatan. The American Magazine, Vol. 68 (May-October): 525-38. [ER - also online at http://books.google.com/books?id=Td4vAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA538&dq=%22The+Slaves+of+Yucatan%22#PPA525,M1 Later published as Chapter 1 in Barbarous Mexico, by J.K. Turner (1910).
Meyer et al: Chapters 26-34.
Riding: Chapters 3-9.
Carmack et al: Chapter 8: 296-315.
Riding: Chapter 10.
Carmack et al: Chapter 8: 315-46
1969 Introduction, Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol.. 7: 3-17.
1967 Indian Population and its Identification. Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 6: 12-25.
Carmack et al: Chapter 9.
1955 Types of Latin American Peasantry: A Preliminary Discussion. American Anthropologist, 57 (3): 452-60. [ER]
1957 Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (currently Journal of Anthropological Research), 13: 1-18. [ER -- also in Peasant Society: A Reader (J. Potter, M. Diaz, & G. Foster, eds.): 245-60. Boston, 1967.
1961 The Civil-Religious Hierarchy in Mesoamerican Communities: Pre-Spanish Background and Colonial Development. American Anthropologist, 63: 483-97. [ER]
1980 Civil-Religious Hierarchies in Central Chiapas: A Critical Perspective. American Ethnologist, 7 (3): 466-78. [ER]
1969 The Nahua. Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 8: 602-37.
1992 The Isthmus Zapotecs: A Matrifocal Culture of Mexico. 2nd edition.
1969 The Maya of Yucatan. Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 7: 244-75.
1996 The Thousand and One Faces of Cancun. In Urban Anthropology &Studies of Cultural Systems & World Economic Development, 25 (3): 283-310. [ER]
1995 Local Adaptation to Global Change: The Reordering of Native Society in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, 1974-1994. European Review of Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 58 (Jun 1995): 71-89. [ER]
1997 The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town.
Bacc // Reading Day -- No class.
Meyer et al: Chapters 35-39.
Carmack et al: Chapters 9 and 12.
Riding: Chapters 6-12.
Riding: Chapter 13.
1996 Mexico's Megalopolis. In I Saw a City Invincible. Urban Portraits of Latin America (G.M. Joseph & M.D.Szuchman, eds.): 181-201. [ER]