The Historical Demography of Highland Guatemala

Bibliographic Data

ID2742003
AuthorsWilliam Sherman (0000-0002-8460-4981), Robert M Carmack, John Early, Christopher H Lutz, Christopher Lutz
Year1985
Volume32
Issue4
Pages378
Publication date1985-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/481898
OpenAlexW2045594529
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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 such as sources of data population and agricultural adaptation prehistoric demography patterns of demographic change native population decline social and demographic patterns in an eighteenth-century census mortality demographic characteristics of peasant systems changes in ethnic population proportions and the interrelationships among demography development and modernization. (EXCERPT)

Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Historical demography · Population · Research methodology · Sociology · Demography · History · Latin American rural development · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography