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...Prudence M. Rice Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A.D.: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1989 . Edited by Sabloff Jeremy A. and Henderson John S. . Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library , 1993 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Erick D. Langer Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia . By Gill Lesley . Boulder : Westview Press , 1987 . Notes. Figures. Tables. Photographs. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 246 . Paper. $26.50 . Copyright 1989 by Duke...

...Myriam Jimeno Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America . Edited by Oakdale Suzanne and Course Magnus . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014 . Photograph. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xii, 319 pp. Cloth , $75.00...

...J. Fred Rippy The Lowland Indians of Amazonia . By Grubb K. G. . ( London : World Dominion Press , 1927 . Pp. x , 159 . 5 shillings .) The River Plate Republics . By Browning Webster E. . ( London : World Dominion Press , 1928 . Pp. vi , 139 . 5 shillings...

... thousand years ago slash-and-burn cultivation had emerged. This makes the American origins of agriculture every bit as ancient as in southwest Asia. Further, the authors are convinced that American agriculture began in the lowland tropical forests, not in highland Mexico or Peru. This latter argument...

... The Lowland Maya Postclassic . Edited by Chase Arlen F. and Rice Prudence M. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1985 . Figures. Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 252 . Cloth. $27.50 . Copyright 1985 by Duke University Press 1985...

...John W. Fox Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns . Edited by Ashmore Wendy . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, A School of American Research Book , 1981 . Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 465 . Cloth. $30.00 . Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982...

...Prudence M. Rice The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script . By Justeson John S. , Norman William M. , Campbell Lyle , and Kaufman Terrence . New Orleans : Middle American Research Institute , 1985 . Publication 53. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Map...

...Richard E. W. Adams Late Lowland Maya Civilization: Classic to Postclassic . Edited by Sabloff Jeremy A. and Andrews E. Wyllys V . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1986 . Figures. Tables. Notes. References. Index . Pp. xiv , 526 . Cloth. $37.50 . Copyright...

...Charlotte M. Gradie Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Mayan Lowlands . Edited and translated by Feldman Lawrence H. . Chronicles of the New World Encounter; Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução . Durham : Duke University Press...

...Robert Hinshaw New Lands and Old Traditions; Kekchi Cultivators in the Guatemalan Lowlands . By Carter William E. . Gainesville , 1969 . University of Florida Press . Latin American Monographs . Illustrations. Tables. Charts. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 153 . Paper. $5.00...

...Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez [email protected] The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands . By Juliet B. Wiersema . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas...

...John P. Harbison The Pacific Lowlands of Colombia. A Negroid Area of the American Tropics . By West Robert C. . Baton Rouge , 1957 . Louisiana State University Press . Social Science Series, No. 8 . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. xiv , 278 . Copyright...

...Jeremy A. Sabloff Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . By Turner B. L. II . Boulder : Westview Press , 1983 . Figures. Tables. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 209 . Paper . $17.00...

... of frontiers in Charcas by highlighting regional rivalries in frontier colonization and demonstrating how the piedmont regions were given meaning in relation to other, more distant lowland frontiers. Additionally, by comparing the 1797 maps with a map of Chulumani district made by the same individual in 1810...

..., capital of the Audiencia of Guatemala. Their final destinations were often rural properties located in or near the Pacific lowlands of modern-day Guatemala and El Salvador, where the largest sugar and indigo plantations counted dozens of Angolans among their enslaved workers. A decided majority...

... (in the lowlands of northern Veracruz) from the mid- to late twentieth century reveal a parallel between the fragility of the monument and the precariousness of the local population, whose labor refashioned the pyramid. An ethnographic consideration of San Antonio Ojital, a community once located north...

.... Bibliography. Index . xvi, 323 pp. Paper, $37.50 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Bolivia's eastern lowlands form a landscape of the future. They tempt landless families with hopes of prosperity and tantalize governments both revolutionary and reactionary with dreams of export-driven...

.... Much less has been written about Indigenous education elsewhere in Bolivia, particularly in the eastern lowlands. Anna Guiteras Mombiola's excellent study sets out to fill this gap by exploring the history of Casarabe, Bolivia's first lowland Indigenous school. She focuses on the ideas and efforts...

...Carmen Soliz The history of the relationship between indigenous groups and the state in the twentieth century is still a fertile area of study in Bolivia. Lowland indigenous groups have started to become the objects of closer analysis, especially since the 1990s. After a historic march in 1989...