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The Huasteca - Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange (Hardcover)
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The Huasteca - Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange (Hardcover)
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The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was
for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures,
arts, and trade. Its multiethnic inhabitants influenced, and were
influenced by, surrounding regions, ferrying unique artistic
styles, languages, and other cultural elements to neighboring areas
and beyond. 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. Editors
Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter put the plight and the
importance of the Huasteca into historical and cultural context.
They address challenges to study of the region, ranging from
confusion about the term ""Huasteca"" (a legacy of the Aztec
conquest in the late fifteenth century) to present-day
misconceptions about the region's role in pre-Columbian history.
Many of the contributions included here consider the Huasteca's
interactions with other regions, particularly the American
Southeast and the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico. Pre-Columbian
Huastec inhabitants, for example, wore trapezoid-shaped shell
ornaments unique in Mesoamerica but similar to those found along
the Mississippi River. With extensive examples drawn from
archaeological evidence, and supported by nearly 200 images, the
contributors explore the Huasteca as a junction where art, material
culture, customs, ritual practices, and languages were exchanged.
While most of the essays focus on pre-Columbian periods, a few
address the early colonial period and contemporary agricultural and
religious practices. Together, these essays illuminate the
Huasteca's significant legacy and the cross-cultural connections
that still resonate in the region today.
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