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Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages

Name: Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages
Author: Catharina E. Santasilia
ISBN: 9780813069296

Edited by Catharina E. Santasilia, Guy David Hepp and Richard A. Diehl

Published by: University Press of Florida

New perspectives on an important era in Mesoamerican historyThis volume examines shifting social identities, lived experiences, and networks of interaction in Mexico during the Mesoamerican Formative...

350 Pages6.13 × 9.2565 b/w illus., 12 maps, 3 tables, notes, bibliography, index

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Published: May 3, 2022

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New perspectives on an important era in Mesoamerican history

This volume examines shifting social identities, lived experiences, and networks of interaction in Mexico during the Mesoamerican Formative period (2000 BCE–250 CE), an era that helped produce some of the world’s most renowned complex civilizations. The chapters offer significant data, innovative methodologies, and novel perspectives on Mexican archaeology.

Using diverse and non-traditional theoretical approaches, contributors discuss interregional relationships and the exchange of ideas in contexts ranging from the Gulf Coast Olmec region to the site of Tlatilco in Central Mexico to the often-overlooked cultures of the far western states. Their essays explore identity formation, cosmological perspectives, the first hints of social complexity, the underpinnings of Formative period economies, and the sensorial implications of sociocultural change.

Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages is one of the first volumes to address the entirety of this rich and complex era and region, offering a new and holistic view. Through a wealth of exciting interpretations from international senior and emerging scholars, this volume shows the strong influence of cultural exchange as well as the compelling individuality of local and regional contexts over two thousand years of history.

Catharina E. Santasilia, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside, is the author of Tlatilco Uncovered. Guy David Hepp, associate professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino, is the author of La Consentida: Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community. Richard A. Diehl, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Alabama, is the author of several books, including The Olmecs: America’s First Civilization.

“An impressive volume that offers significant new data and fresh perspectives on changing practices, experiences, and identities in the early communities of ancient Mexico.”—Christopher A. Pool, University of Kentucky
“Engages in discussions of identity in the past, presenting new research that is transforming how we understand the Mesoamerican Formative period.”—Cynthia Robin, author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages
Guy David Hepp, Catharina E. Santasilia, and Richard A. Diehl

Chapter 2. Changing/Rearranging: Transformations in Identities and Sociopolitical Organization in Early Formative Oaxaca
Jeffrey P. Blomster

Chapter 3. Early Formative Gulf Lowlands Occupants: From Fictions to Factions
Philip J. Arnold III

Chapter 4. Full Bellies, Ringing Ears, and Smoke in Their Eyes: The Sensations of Social Change in Mesoamerica’s Early Formative Period
Guy David Hepp

Chapter 5. New Approaches to Jadeite Usage in Formative Mesoamerica: Identifying Olmec Portable Sculptures on the Gulf Coast
Henri Noel Bernard, Sara Ladrón de Guevara, Mayra Manrique, and José Luis Ruvalcaba

Chapter 6. Beyond Contortionists: Archaeological Indicators of Ritual Activities at Tlatilco
Patricia Ochoa Castillo

Chapter 7. Regional and Corporate Identities in Formative Period Western Mexico
Christopher S. Beekman

Chapter 8. Tlatilco: The People of the Lake
Catharina E. Santasilia

Chapter 9. Refining the Middle Formative Chronology in Central Mexico: Implications for the Origins of the Central Mexican Urban Tradition
Tatsuya Murakami

Chapter 10. The Ceremonial Offerings of Cerro de la Virgen, Oaxaca: Identity, Politics, and Religious Practice at the End of the Formative
Jeffrey S. Brzezinski, Vanessa Monson, Arthur A. Joyce, and Sarah B. Barber

Chapter 11. Reflections on the Mesoamerican Formative Period
Richard A. Diehl

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