Robert M Carmack
Biographic Data
| ID | 110450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Carmack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Carmack |
| SIGNATURE | CARMACK R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America
In The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America, Robert Carmack focuses on K'iche' natives of Guatemala, Masayan peoples of Nicaragua, and the native peoples of Buenos Aires and Costa Rica. Starting with Christopher Columbus' proclaimed "discovery" of Central America, Carmack illustrates the Central American native peoples' dramatic struggles for survival, native languages, and unique communities and states. Carmack draws on the fiel…
Encuesta multidisciplinaria en Curré
El objetivo del informe que presentamos a continuación tiene como finalidad dar a conocer los resultados preliminares obtenidos por un equipo de antropólogos, con base en una serie de encuestas en el pueblo indígena de Curré, cantón de Buenos Aires, Costa Rica. Los investigadores se enfocaron en una serie de temas socioculturales; tales como los encontrados en este pueblo indígena: organización social, recursos económicos, lenguajes, revitalizaci…
Anthropology and Global History
Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present—utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies. Carmack reconceptualizes world history from a global perspective by employing the expansive concepts of “world-systems” and “civilizations,” and by paying deepe…
New Quichean Chronicles from Highland Guatemala
Ethnohistoric studies of the prehispanic Quichean cultures of high· land Guatemala (especially the Quiche, Cakchiquel, and Tzutujil groups) have primarily been focused on native chronicles written during the middle of the 16th century. In addition to the justifiably famous Popol Vuh and Annals of the Cakchiquels, there are another 16 major and 10 minor documents of this type. The PV and Annals are easily the most extensive of these and provide us…
Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica
This is one of the best books available on the topic of ethnicity. Not only is the concept analyzed in thorough fashion by all the authors of the anthology, but most importantly, ethnicity in the specific case of the Nahua peoples of Mexico is illustrated for pre- Hispanic, colonial, and modern historical periods. Furthermore, a serious attempt is made to shed light on the concept according to the distinct subdisciplines (or methodological approa…
A World-Systems Perspective on the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mesoamerican/Lower Central American Border
The authors challenge the argument by other world-system scholars that Lower Central America fell outside the Mesoamerican world-system during the late Postclassic period. Drawing on ethnohistoric and archaeological information, it is argued that native peoples along the Pacific Coast of Central America from El Salvador to the Nicoya Peninsula (Costa Rica) are best understood as part of the Mesoamerican periphery. The Central American peoples sou…
Rabina Achi
Dennis Tedlock’s translation and exegesis of the Rabinal Achi text (RA) is a valuable contribution to Mayan studies, as well as to the anthropology of cultural discourse and artistic expression. As with his prior translation of the Popol Wuj, Tedlock once again demonstrates his ability to translate classical K’iche texts into beautiful poetry and prose. I was particularly pleased to find that besides Tedlock’s devoted interest in the literary and…
Archaeology and Ethnohistorty of Iximché
The Fragmented Present
Book Review| January 01 2004 The Fragmented Present: Mesoamerican Societies Facing Modernization Acta Mesoamericana, vol. 9. 2d rev. ed. Edited by Ruth Gubler and Ueli Hostettler. (Markt Schwaben, Germany: Anton Saurwein, 2002. xiv + 180 pp.,introduction, contributors, maps, illustrations. $40.00 cloth.) Robert M. Carmack Robert M. Carmack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 219–220. https://doi.…
Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales
Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales. James D. Sexton and Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. 152 pp
Rebels of Highland Guatemala
Rebels of Highland Guatemala
Rebels of Highland Guatemala
Encomienda Politics in Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544
Encomienda Politics in Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544: Dividing the Spoils. Wendy Kramer. Dellplain Latin American Studies, 31. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. 293 pp
Living with the Ancestors
Encomienda Politics in Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544
History and Society in Central America. Edelberto Torres Rivas
Guatemala
Harvest of Violence
Harvest of Violence
El Título de yax y otros documentos quichés de Totonicapán, Guatemala
Harvest of Violence
Journal Article Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis. Ed. by Robert M. Carmack. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. xvii + 334 pp. $21.95.) Get access Bruce Calder Bruce Calder University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 665–666, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908113 Published: 01 Septem…
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala
The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Times
The Historical Demography of Highland Guatemala
This publication contains 16 papers originally prepared for a symposium on the historical demography of highland Guatemala held in Albany New York in October 1979. The aim of the symposium was summarize the findings to date on highland Guatemala historical demography and lay the groundwork for future studies. Separate sections are included on the pre-Hispanic period the colonial period and the modern period. Individual papers deal with topics suc…
Quichean Civilization
The Quiche state in Guatemala flourished for several centuries before being destroyed by the conquistadors in 1524. During the early years of the ensuing period, the Quicheans recorded their past history and legends, writing in their own language but using the Latin alphabet. Many of these chronicles have survived, each illuminating various aspects of pre-conquest Quichean culture. Organized in six sections, Quichean Civilization categorizes all …
Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica
This is one of the best books available on the topic of ethnicity. Not only is the concept analyzed in thorough fashion by all the authors of the anthology, but most importantly, ethnicity in the specific case of the Nahua peoples of Mexico is illustrated for pre- Hispanic, colonial, and modern historical periods. Furthermore, a serious attempt is made to shed light on the concept according to the distinct subdisciplines (or methodological approa…
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Utatlan
Recent studies of sixteenth century Quiche-Maya society have resulted in a sociocultural reconstruction based on the integration of archaeological and ethnohistorical data sets. Certain aspects of the internal social system of two contemporaneous settlement centers are examined in the context of this model and correspondences are noted. Contradictions between data sets suggest the applicability of an explicitly dialectical perspective
The Zapotecs
The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Times
The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán
Now available in paperback for the time since its publication in 1980, The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan offers a full account of the Quiches, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The Quiches ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K'umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlan. Robert M. Carmack re-creates the setting of…
Quichean Civilization
Harvest of Violence
Journal Article Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis. Ed. by Robert M. Carmack. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. xvii + 334 pp. $21.95.) Get access Bruce Calder Bruce Calder University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 665–666, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908113 Published: 01 Septem…
A World-Systems Perspective on the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mesoamerican/Lower Central American Border
The authors challenge the argument by other world-system scholars that Lower Central America fell outside the Mesoamerican world-system during the late Postclassic period. Drawing on ethnohistoric and archaeological information, it is argued that native peoples along the Pacific Coast of Central America from El Salvador to the Nicoya Peninsula (Costa Rica) are best understood as part of the Mesoamerican periphery. The Central American peoples sou…
Rebels of Highland Guatemala
Ethnography and Ethnohistory
The of the relationship between ethnography and ethnohistory is reviewed, especially as it relates to Middle American studies. Examples are drawn from the author's ethnographic field work among the Quiche-Maya of highland Guatemala to demonstrate how these efforts were aided by documentary research, and to show how understanding of the historical record can be improved through knowledge of the living culture. ETHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY The…
Rebels of Highland Guatemala
Anthropology and Global History
Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present—utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies. Carmack reconceptualizes world history from a global perspective by employing the expansive concepts of “world-systems” and “civilizations,” and by paying deepe…
Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales
Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales. James D. Sexton and Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. 152 pp
The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan
Ethnology
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 14, Part Three of Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources
Ethnology
Ethnography and Ethnohistory
The of the relationship between ethnography and ethnohistory is reviewed, especially as it relates to Middle American studies. Examples are drawn from the author's ethnographic field work among the Quiche-Maya of highland Guatemala to demonstrate how these efforts were aided by documentary research, and to show how understanding of the historical record can be improved through knowledge of the living culture. ETHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY The…
Ethnohistory
The relationship between history and anthropology has too often been viewed in terms of the misleading dichotomy between the ideographic, the specific and unique, and the nomothetic, the abstract, and general (see, for example, Boas 13; Harris 40; Kroeber 46; White 102). Nagel (67), who traces the dichotomy back to Aristotle, has convincingly demonstrated the use of generalizations and specific cases in both history and science, and Sahlins and S…
El Mensajero
Ethnology
CHAPTER V Modern Anthropological Sources
El Mensajero
Quichean Civilization
The Quiche state in Guatemala flourished for several centuries before being destroyed by the conquistadors in 1524. During the early years of the ensuing period, the Quicheans recorded their past history and legends, writing in their own language but using the Latin alphabet. Many of these chronicles have survived, each illuminating various aspects of pre-conquest Quichean culture. Organized in six sections, Quichean Civilization categorizes all …
El Mensajero
El Mensajero
Quichean Civilization
Quichean Civilization
Quichean Civilization
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 14, Part Three of Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources
News and Short Contributions
Amadou-Mahtar M'bow, Shirley Gorenstein, R. Ross Holloway, Robert Carmack, Stephen L. Dyson, William L. Kelso, Ned Nabers, Ronald Spores, T. Cuyler Young, Jr., News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 259-265
The Zapotecs
Ethnology
A Milpero of Peten, Guatemala
Cuauhtinchan del siglo XVI al XVI
Cuauhtinchan del siglo XII al XVI
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Utatlan
Recent studies of sixteenth century Quiche-Maya society have resulted in a sociocultural reconstruction based on the integration of archaeological and ethnohistorical data sets. Certain aspects of the internal social system of two contemporaneous settlement centers are examined in the context of this model and correspondences are noted. Contradictions between data sets suggest the applicability of an explicitly dialectical perspective
The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Central Quiche
The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán
Now available in paperback for the time since its publication in 1980, The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan offers a full account of the Quiches, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The Quiches ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K'umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlan. Robert M. Carmack re-creates the setting of…
Update on the Situation in Guatemala
The Historical Demography of Highland Guatemala
This publication contains 16 papers originally prepared for a symposium on the historical demography of highland Guatemala held in Albany New York in October 1979. The aim of the symposium was summarize the findings to date on highland Guatemala historical demography and lay the groundwork for future studies. Separate sections are included on the pre-Hispanic period the colonial period and the modern period. Individual papers deal with topics suc…
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