In The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange, a range of authorities on art, history, archaeology, and cultural anthropology bring long-overdue attention to the region's rich contributions to the pre-Columbian world. They also assess how the Huasteca fared from colonial times to the present. The authors call critical, even urgent attention to a region highly significant to Mesoamerican history but long neglected by scholars.
Author(s): Katherine A. Faust, Kim N. Richter
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Huasteca as Heartland in the Hinterlands, by Kim N. Richter and Katherine A. Faust
Chapter 1. The Huastec Problem: A Linguistic and Archaeological Perspective, by John Robertson and Stephen Houston
Chapter 2. The Materials of Tamtoc: A Preliminary Evaluation, by Gerardo Alarcón and Guillermo Ahuja
Chapter 3. The Maya Presence in the Huastec Region: An Archaeological Perspective, by Diana Zaragoza Ocaña
Chapter 4. Postclassic Huastec Sculpture: Constructing International Elite Identity in the Huasteca, by Kim N. Richter
Chapter 5. The Huastec Sun God: Portrayals of Solar Imagery, Sacrifice, and War in Late Postclassic Huastec Iconography, by Karl A. Taube
Chapter 6. Trapezoidal Shell Pectorals from the Huasteca, by Patricio Dávila Cabrera
Chapter 7. Iconographic Relationships between the Huastec and El Tajín Traditions, by Rex Koontz
Chapter 8. In Search of Tamazunchale: “Place Where the Woman Governs,” by Cherra Wyllie
Chapter 9. Linguistic Diversity, Cultural Unity, and the Question of Maize and Religion in the History of the Huasteca, by Jesús Ruvalcaba Mercado
Chapter 10. The Huasteca in Mesoamerican Studies, by Joel W. Palka
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