Southeastern Mesoamerica: Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781646420964)

Southeastern Mesoamerica highlights the diversity and dynamism of the Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of Southeastern Mesoamerica, an area that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Chapters combine archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic data and approaches to better understand the long-term sociopolitical and cultural changes that occurred throughout the entirety of human occupation of this area.

Drawing on archaeological evidence ranging back to the late Pleistocene as well as extensive documentation from the historic period, contributors show how Southeastern Mesoamericans created unique identities, strategically incorporating cosmopolitan influences from cultures to the north and south with their own long-lived traditions. These populations developed autochthonous forms of monumental architecture and routes and methods of exchange and had distinct social, cultural, political, and economic traits. They also established unique long-term human-environment relations that were the result of internal creativity and inspiration influenced by local social and natural trajectories.

Southeastern Mesoamerica calls upon archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnohistorians, and others working in Mesoamerica, Central America, and other cultural boundaries around the world to reexamine the role Indigenous resilience and agency play in these areas and in the cultural developments and interactions that occur within them.

Contributors: Edy Barrios, Christopher Begley, Walter Burgos, Mauricio D az Garc a, William R. Fowler, Rosemary A. Joyce, Gloria Lara-Pinto, Eva L. Mart nez, William J. McFarlane, Cameron L. McNeil, Lorena D. Mihok, Pastor Rodolfo G mez Z iga, Timothy Scheffler, Edward Schortman, Russell Sheptak, Miranda Suri, Patricia Urban, Antol n Vel squez, E. Christian Wells


Author: Whitney A. Goodwin
ISBN-10: 1646420969
ISBN-13: 9781646420964
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2021
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d