John W Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 152424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 345 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Enhanced Integration of Multi-Disciplinary Inputs into a Narrative of an Ancient Migration, Based on Greater Chronological Precision Provided by a Novel Y-DNA Clock and Phylogenetic Branching
An accurate DNA clock can strengthen cross-disciplinary inputs in the study of genealogies and ancient migrations. New Y-chromosome sequence data gathered from a Lotli Pai Kaundinya (LPK) Brahmin cohort whose staged migration from the Pontic Steppe to the West Coast of India was previously reported, are used here to generate a more precise DNA clock. The formula distinguishes Y-mutation rates for transitions and transversions and corrects for dro…
Globalization and the Gulf
Part 1: Overview of How Globalization Has Articulated With Gulf Societies, c.1970-2006 1. The Arab Gulf: Global and Tribal Syncretism Part 2: Globalization: Concepts, History, Dynamics and Consequences 2. The Concept of Security in a Globalizing World 3. A Globalism at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries 4. Globalization as Economic Phenomenon: A Critical Interpretation 5. The Trends in Globalization Critiqued Part 3: Globalization, Poli…
Living with the Ancestors
Constructing Maya Communities
Given that millions of traditional Maya live today, it is surprising how little ethnography has figured into reconstructions of their ancient societies. Early Mayanists pointed out many continuities between the present and the past. For example, de Borhegyi (i956) argued that a conservative Maya folk culture had adapted to state institutions on its own terms in the course of being dominated for successive soo-600-year intervals by its own elite (…
Questions of Political and Economic Integration
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Political cosmology among the Quiché Maya
Introduction: competition among segmentary lineages The Lowland Mayan ancestors of the Quiché entered the Guatemalan Highlands at the close of the Classic period (AD late 800s), and confederated during the Early Postclassic (AD 1100s). Factionalism permeated these political fields. This chapter examines the political and ideological transformations that resulted from competition (1) between the contending Quiché groups as well as (2) between the …
Conclusions
In aboriginal American societies, factions competed for power, prestige, authority, and material benefits. A counterpositioning of structurally similar corporate groups, often in pairs, generated factional competition. This collection provides case studies on factional competition in a variety of environmental settings and on the methods for discerning factionalism across a gamut of social fields. Theoretical approaches to conflict and change A s…
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on …
The Conceptualization and Measurement of Social Mobility Differences
The Structure, Stability, and Social Antecedents of Reported Paranormal Experiences
Using national sample data from the General Social Surveys, this study assesses cultural source theories of reported paranormal experiences. The reported paranormal experiences of extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, contact with the dead, and mysticism, but not déjà vu, are found to have an invariant and stable factor structure across the 1984, 1988, and 1989 General Social Survey data. Déjà vu is more frequent among younger and more highly ed…
Irish Immigrants, Pauperism, and Insanity in 1854 Massachusetts
The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations
Maya Postclassic State Formation
1. Introduction Part I. Chontal segmentary lineage formation within the gulf frontier and diasporas to Yucatan, Chiapas and Guatemala 2. Segmentary lineage organisation of the Quiche, Chontal and Itza 3. The cult of the feathered serpent: the Toltec connection 4. Warrior and aristocratic lineages: ecological conditions leapfrog migrations Part II. The early postclassic Mexican-Mayan frontier of the midwestern Guatemalan highlands: 5. The acropoli…
The Archaeology of Political Structure
List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Studying ancient complex politics 2. Thinking about Maya political structure 3. The Rosario polity 4. Linking Maya politics and settlement 5. Centralization 6. Differentiation and integration 7. Political regimes and microcosms 8. Political stratification 9. Mechanical versus organic solidarity 10. Segmenting versus non-segmenting organization 11. Archaeological study of Maya polities Notes References Ind…
Social Class, Mental Illness, and Social Mobility
The assumptions and methods of previous studies of the social selection-drift hypothesis for serious mental illness are examined by using comtemporary log-linear methods for social mobility analysis. The null hypothesis of no difference in intergenerational social mobility between seriously mentally ill and general population control groups cannot be rejected in previous studies by Birtchnell (1971), Goldberg and Morrison (1963), Langner and Mich…
Maya Postclassic State Formation
Maya Postclassic State Formation
On the Rise and Fall ofTulánsand Maya Segmentary States
An approach integrating ethnohistory, ethnography, and settlement pattern archeology allows a series of "ontogenetic stages" with segmentary lineage behaviors to be delineated for the Post-classic Quiché-Maya state at Utatlán, Guatemala. Comparisons to the Postclassic states in lowland southern Mesoamerica (e.g., Chichén Itzé, Mayapán) assess the segmentary state model. In each, intrusive lineages migrated to coalesce into confederacies that exem…
Sex, Marital Status, and Age as Social Selection Factors in Recent Psychiatric Treatment
This paper examines the relative effects of sex, marital status, age, and their potential interactions in recent psychiatric treatment while controlling for the severity of mental illness across six different dimensions of psychiatric symptomatology in a national data sample. Only marital status and age are found consistently to have social selection effects on psychiatric treatment in the past year. Analyses of these data show no empirical suppo…
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…
Swidden Didn' Make All That Midden
Research strategies for understanding the subsistence base of ancient Mayan culture are evaluated, along with suggestions for future work. Better data and more sophisticated interpretations of ancient lowland Maya population densities force many Mayanists to consider low-yield extensive agronomy, specifically swidden farming, inadequate to support such large populations. Some innovative scholars have attempted to identify intensive agronomic syst…
Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Central Quiche
On Change and Stability in Eastern Mesoamerica
Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on …
Questions of Political and Economic Integration
Constructing Maya Communities
Given that millions of traditional Maya live today, it is surprising how little ethnography has figured into reconstructions of their ancient societies. Early Mayanists pointed out many continuities between the present and the past. For example, de Borhegyi (i956) argued that a conservative Maya folk culture had adapted to state institutions on its own terms in the course of being dominated for successive soo-600-year intervals by its own elite (…
On the Rise and Fall ofTulánsand Maya Segmentary States
An approach integrating ethnohistory, ethnography, and settlement pattern archeology allows a series of "ontogenetic stages" with segmentary lineage behaviors to be delineated for the Post-classic Quiché-Maya state at Utatlán, Guatemala. Comparisons to the Postclassic states in lowland southern Mesoamerica (e.g., Chichén Itzé, Mayapán) assess the segmentary state model. In each, intrusive lineages migrated to coalesce into confederacies that exem…
Maya Postclassic State Formation
1. Introduction Part I. Chontal segmentary lineage formation within the gulf frontier and diasporas to Yucatan, Chiapas and Guatemala 2. Segmentary lineage organisation of the Quiche, Chontal and Itza 3. The cult of the feathered serpent: the Toltec connection 4. Warrior and aristocratic lineages: ecological conditions leapfrog migrations Part II. The early postclassic Mexican-Mayan frontier of the midwestern Guatemalan highlands: 5. The acropoli…
Social Class, Mental Illness, and Social Mobility
The assumptions and methods of previous studies of the social selection-drift hypothesis for serious mental illness are examined by using comtemporary log-linear methods for social mobility analysis. The null hypothesis of no difference in intergenerational social mobility between seriously mentally ill and general population control groups cannot be rejected in previous studies by Birtchnell (1971), Goldberg and Morrison (1963), Langner and Mich…
The Late Postclassic Eastern Frontier of Mesoamerica
A far-reaching frontier culture area emerged along the eastern periphery of southern Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic. Here linguistically diverse peoples (e.g., Rabinal, Pokom, Akahal, Xinca) shared a pattern in material culture. With the frontier commencing along the borders of the Quinche and Cakchiquel conquest states, it is theorized that a principal variable in the development of the frontier cultural pattern was militaristic expansi…
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…
Lowland to Highland Mexicanization Processes in Southern Mesoamerica
An Epiclassic period (ca. A.D. 800-1000) Mexican-influenced archaeological pattern is delineated for the Río Negro and Río Motagua basins, the two principal arteries of highland Guatemala, which flow to the Gulf and Caribbean lowlands. This pattern is argued to have originated along the Mexican-Mayan cultural frontier of the Gulf coast. A subsequent Toltec pattern in these same river basins parallels Chichén Itzá and Mayapán and also can be seen …
Gove's Specific Sex-Role Theory of Mental Illness
The Structure, Stability, and Social Antecedents of Reported Paranormal Experiences
Using national sample data from the General Social Surveys, this study assesses cultural source theories of reported paranormal experiences. The reported paranormal experiences of extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, contact with the dead, and mysticism, but not déjà vu, are found to have an invariant and stable factor structure across the 1984, 1988, and 1989 General Social Survey data. Déjà vu is more frequent among younger and more highly ed…
Quiche Conquest
Maya Postclassic State Formation
Sex, Marital Status, and Age as Social Selection Factors in Recent Psychiatric Treatment
This paper examines the relative effects of sex, marital status, age, and their potential interactions in recent psychiatric treatment while controlling for the severity of mental illness across six different dimensions of psychiatric symptomatology in a national data sample. Only marital status and age are found consistently to have social selection effects on psychiatric treatment in the past year. Analyses of these data show no empirical suppo…
Swidden Didn' Make All That Midden
Research strategies for understanding the subsistence base of ancient Mayan culture are evaluated, along with suggestions for future work. Better data and more sophisticated interpretations of ancient lowland Maya population densities force many Mayanists to consider low-yield extensive agronomy, specifically swidden farming, inadequate to support such large populations. Some innovative scholars have attempted to identify intensive agronomic syst…
On Change and Stability in Eastern Mesoamerica
Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture
The Concepts of Image and Adoption in Relation to Interpersonal Behavior
"Comments on "Hall's Professionalism Scale
The Origins of Maya Civilization
Quiche Conquest
Quiche Conquest
Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture
Quiche Conquest
Lowland to Highland Mexicanization Processes in Southern Mesoamerica
An Epiclassic period (ca. A.D. 800-1000) Mexican-influenced archaeological pattern is delineated for the Río Negro and Río Motagua basins, the two principal arteries of highland Guatemala, which flow to the Gulf and Caribbean lowlands. This pattern is argued to have originated along the Mexican-Mayan cultural frontier of the Gulf coast. A subsequent Toltec pattern in these same river basins parallels Chichén Itzá and Mayapán and also can be seen …
Gove's Specific Sex-Role Theory of Mental Illness
The Late Postclassic Eastern Frontier of Mesoamerica
A far-reaching frontier culture area emerged along the eastern periphery of southern Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic. Here linguistically diverse peoples (e.g., Rabinal, Pokom, Akahal, Xinca) shared a pattern in material culture. With the frontier commencing along the borders of the Quinche and Cakchiquel conquest states, it is theorized that a principal variable in the development of the frontier cultural pattern was militaristic expansi…
Swidden Didn' Make All That Midden
Research strategies for understanding the subsistence base of ancient Mayan culture are evaluated, along with suggestions for future work. Better data and more sophisticated interpretations of ancient lowland Maya population densities force many Mayanists to consider low-yield extensive agronomy, specifically swidden farming, inadequate to support such large populations. Some innovative scholars have attempted to identify intensive agronomic syst…
Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Central Quiche
On Change and Stability in Eastern Mesoamerica
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…
Sex, Marital Status, and Age as Social Selection Factors in Recent Psychiatric Treatment
This paper examines the relative effects of sex, marital status, age, and their potential interactions in recent psychiatric treatment while controlling for the severity of mental illness across six different dimensions of psychiatric symptomatology in a national data sample. Only marital status and age are found consistently to have social selection effects on psychiatric treatment in the past year. Analyses of these data show no empirical suppo…
Maya Postclassic State Formation
Maya Postclassic State Formation
On the Rise and Fall ofTulánsand Maya Segmentary States
An approach integrating ethnohistory, ethnography, and settlement pattern archeology allows a series of "ontogenetic stages" with segmentary lineage behaviors to be delineated for the Post-classic Quiché-Maya state at Utatlán, Guatemala. Comparisons to the Postclassic states in lowland southern Mesoamerica (e.g., Chichén Itzé, Mayapán) assess the segmentary state model. In each, intrusive lineages migrated to coalesce into confederacies that exem…
Maya Postclassic State Formation
1. Introduction Part I. Chontal segmentary lineage formation within the gulf frontier and diasporas to Yucatan, Chiapas and Guatemala 2. Segmentary lineage organisation of the Quiche, Chontal and Itza 3. The cult of the feathered serpent: the Toltec connection 4. Warrior and aristocratic lineages: ecological conditions leapfrog migrations Part II. The early postclassic Mexican-Mayan frontier of the midwestern Guatemalan highlands: 5. The acropoli…
The Archaeology of Political Structure
List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Studying ancient complex politics 2. Thinking about Maya political structure 3. The Rosario polity 4. Linking Maya politics and settlement 5. Centralization 6. Differentiation and integration 7. Political regimes and microcosms 8. Political stratification 9. Mechanical versus organic solidarity 10. Segmenting versus non-segmenting organization 11. Archaeological study of Maya polities Notes References Ind…
Social Class, Mental Illness, and Social Mobility
The assumptions and methods of previous studies of the social selection-drift hypothesis for serious mental illness are examined by using comtemporary log-linear methods for social mobility analysis. The null hypothesis of no difference in intergenerational social mobility between seriously mentally ill and general population control groups cannot be rejected in previous studies by Birtchnell (1971), Goldberg and Morrison (1963), Langner and Mich…
Irish Immigrants, Pauperism, and Insanity in 1854 Massachusetts
The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations
The Structure, Stability, and Social Antecedents of Reported Paranormal Experiences
Using national sample data from the General Social Surveys, this study assesses cultural source theories of reported paranormal experiences. The reported paranormal experiences of extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, contact with the dead, and mysticism, but not déjà vu, are found to have an invariant and stable factor structure across the 1984, 1988, and 1989 General Social Survey data. Déjà vu is more frequent among younger and more highly ed…
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