Robert M Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 85948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rubén Elías Reina (1924-2016)
Chinamit and Molab: Late Posclassic Highland Maya Precursors of Closed Corporate Community
This article explores the extent to which documentary evidence from the early Colonial period in Guatemala can be used to demonstrate the existance of closed corporate community as an organizing principle of basic Highland Maya socio-cultural units during the Late Postclassic period (ca. AD 1200-1524). Our ability to detect various aspects of closed corporate community among the ancient Highland Maya allows a more ethnographic characterization of…
Instances of Maya Witchcraft in the 18th Century Totonicapan Area
Of all subjects in Maya culture and all periods of its history, none is less well known than the world-view of Maya people during the Colonial period. The methodological problem is formidable. How can one discover the beliefs, the world view of this largely non-literate people? To what documents can one turn for information on such a subject? The major Colonial chronicles are of some help in this regard as are the Spanish-Maya dictionaries of the…
Three Families: Genealogies and Processes among the Sixteenth-Century Kaqchikel Maya
The new political offices introduced after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica created new challenges and opportunities for indigenous elites and their supporters. This article traces the careers of three Kaqchikel-Maya families in sixteenth-century Guatemala and reveals a range of concerns about and strategies for maintaining and enhancing aspects of their preconquest social status
Kaqchikel Chronicles: The Definitive Edition
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché
Book Review| July 01 2006 Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché. By C. Roger Nance, Stephen L. Whittington, and Barbara E. Borg. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2003. xxiv + 407 pp., foreword, 157 black-and-white illustrations, 4 maps, 80 tables, 5 appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Robert M. Hill, II Robert M. Hill, II Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca
Book Review| January 01 2004 The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca By Kevin Terraciano. (Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv +514 pp., introduction, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, maps,figures. $65.00 cloth.) Robert M. Hill, II Robert M. Hill, II Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 213–215. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-1-213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
States of Heart: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Kaqchikel Maya Ethnopsychology
This article examines early colonial Kaqchikel Maya notions of the self, souls, and the heart. By integrating ethnohistorical data and contemporary ethnographic observations, we show that Kaqchikeles viewed the self as contingent on a dynamic balance of cosmic forces acting on the individual. The ways in which these forces are seen to effect one's state of being are documented through an extensive discussion of Kaqchikel metaphors of the heart an…
Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s
Eastern Chajoma (Cakchiquel) Political Geography: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Contributions to the Study of a Late Postclassic Highland Maya Polity
The Chajoma were a major Late Postclassic polity in highland Guatemala. Referred to as the Akajal or Akul in the Annals of the Cakchiquels and Popol Vuh, their territory previously has not been fully defined. Based on a small group of sixteenth-century documents preserved in the records of a later litigation, it is now possible to identify the origins of the Chajoma, approximate the time of their arrival in their new territory, and define the ext…
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier
The Pirir Papers and Other Colonial Period Cakchiquel-Maya Testamentos
Social Organization by Decree in Colonial Highland Guatemala
Ethnographically documented forms of Mesoamerican Indian community organization have frequently been interpreted either as mere survivals of preconquest principles or as the results of general Spanish policies and conditions during the colonial period. This article documents the careers of social units, called parcialidades in Spanish, in three highland Maya communities and demonstrates the importance of Spanish recommendations and rulings in res…
Continuities in Highland Maya Social Organization: Ethnohistory in Sacapulas, Guatemala
Continuities in Highland Maya Social Organization innovatively combines ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and archaeological research to present the first study of the Maya community from preconquest to modern times
The Tzutujil Mayas: Continuity and Change, 1250-1630
Los Mayas, una sociedad oriental
Colonial Manuscripts of Chiquimula, El Progreso & Zacapa Departments, Guatemala
Response to Miksicek, Elsesser, Wuebber, Bruhns, and Hammond
A recent statement by the five authors purports to demonstrate that the fruit we previously identified as ramón was really achiote. This response points out several weaknesses in the five authors' ethnohistorical methodology that makes their identification far less secure. The original aim of our paper is restated to turn discussion away from the minor point of ramón versus achiote
Lowland Maya Subsistence: Notes from Ethnohistory and Ethnography
Recent ethnohistorical investigations by the authors as part of a larger research effort focusing on Highland Maya ethnohistory have produced information on settlement patterns and subsistence activities for the Maya of the Alta Verapaz region. The environmentally transitional nature of this area-from tropical highlands to lowlands-makes this information of potential interest to Mayanists concerned with lowland civilization. Parallel subsistence …
The traditional pottery of Guatemala
The Metabolism of Sulfur
Lowland Maya Subsistence: Notes from Ethnohistory and Ethnography
Recent ethnohistorical investigations by the authors as part of a larger research effort focusing on Highland Maya ethnohistory have produced information on settlement patterns and subsistence activities for the Maya of the Alta Verapaz region. The environmentally transitional nature of this area-from tropical highlands to lowlands-makes this information of potential interest to Mayanists concerned with lowland civilization. Parallel subsistence …
Social Organization by Decree in Colonial Highland Guatemala
Ethnographically documented forms of Mesoamerican Indian community organization have frequently been interpreted either as mere survivals of preconquest principles or as the results of general Spanish policies and conditions during the colonial period. This article documents the careers of social units, called parcialidades in Spanish, in three highland Maya communities and demonstrates the importance of Spanish recommendations and rulings in res…
Eastern Chajoma (Cakchiquel) Political Geography: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Contributions to the Study of a Late Postclassic Highland Maya Polity
The Chajoma were a major Late Postclassic polity in highland Guatemala. Referred to as the Akajal or Akul in the Annals of the Cakchiquels and Popol Vuh, their territory previously has not been fully defined. Based on a small group of sixteenth-century documents preserved in the records of a later litigation, it is now possible to identify the origins of the Chajoma, approximate the time of their arrival in their new territory, and define the ext…
The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca
Book Review| January 01 2004 The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca By Kevin Terraciano. (Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv +514 pp., introduction, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, maps,figures. $65.00 cloth.) Robert M. Hill, II Robert M. Hill, II Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 213–215. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-1-213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
States of Heart: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Kaqchikel Maya Ethnopsychology
This article examines early colonial Kaqchikel Maya notions of the self, souls, and the heart. By integrating ethnohistorical data and contemporary ethnographic observations, we show that Kaqchikeles viewed the self as contingent on a dynamic balance of cosmic forces acting on the individual. The ways in which these forces are seen to effect one's state of being are documented through an extensive discussion of Kaqchikel metaphors of the heart an…
The Pirir Papers and Other Colonial Period Cakchiquel-Maya Testamentos
Three Families: Genealogies and Processes among the Sixteenth-Century Kaqchikel Maya
The new political offices introduced after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica created new challenges and opportunities for indigenous elites and their supporters. This article traces the careers of three Kaqchikel-Maya families in sixteenth-century Guatemala and reveals a range of concerns about and strategies for maintaining and enhancing aspects of their preconquest social status
Rubén Elías Reina (1924-2016)
The Metabolism of Sulfur
The traditional pottery of Guatemala
Lowland Maya Subsistence: Notes from Ethnohistory and Ethnography
Recent ethnohistorical investigations by the authors as part of a larger research effort focusing on Highland Maya ethnohistory have produced information on settlement patterns and subsistence activities for the Maya of the Alta Verapaz region. The environmentally transitional nature of this area-from tropical highlands to lowlands-makes this information of potential interest to Mayanists concerned with lowland civilization. Parallel subsistence …
Response to Miksicek, Elsesser, Wuebber, Bruhns, and Hammond
A recent statement by the five authors purports to demonstrate that the fruit we previously identified as ramón was really achiote. This response points out several weaknesses in the five authors' ethnohistorical methodology that makes their identification far less secure. The original aim of our paper is restated to turn discussion away from the minor point of ramón versus achiote
Los Mayas, una sociedad oriental
Colonial Manuscripts of Chiquimula, El Progreso & Zacapa Departments, Guatemala
The Tzutujil Mayas: Continuity and Change, 1250-1630
Continuities in Highland Maya Social Organization: Ethnohistory in Sacapulas, Guatemala
Continuities in Highland Maya Social Organization innovatively combines ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and archaeological research to present the first study of the Maya community from preconquest to modern times
Social Organization by Decree in Colonial Highland Guatemala
Ethnographically documented forms of Mesoamerican Indian community organization have frequently been interpreted either as mere survivals of preconquest principles or as the results of general Spanish policies and conditions during the colonial period. This article documents the careers of social units, called parcialidades in Spanish, in three highland Maya communities and demonstrates the importance of Spanish recommendations and rulings in res…
Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier
The Pirir Papers and Other Colonial Period Cakchiquel-Maya Testamentos
Eastern Chajoma (Cakchiquel) Political Geography: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Contributions to the Study of a Late Postclassic Highland Maya Polity
The Chajoma were a major Late Postclassic polity in highland Guatemala. Referred to as the Akajal or Akul in the Annals of the Cakchiquels and Popol Vuh, their territory previously has not been fully defined. Based on a small group of sixteenth-century documents preserved in the records of a later litigation, it is now possible to identify the origins of the Chajoma, approximate the time of their arrival in their new territory, and define the ext…
Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s
States of Heart: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Kaqchikel Maya Ethnopsychology
This article examines early colonial Kaqchikel Maya notions of the self, souls, and the heart. By integrating ethnohistorical data and contemporary ethnographic observations, we show that Kaqchikeles viewed the self as contingent on a dynamic balance of cosmic forces acting on the individual. The ways in which these forces are seen to effect one's state of being are documented through an extensive discussion of Kaqchikel metaphors of the heart an…
The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca
Book Review| January 01 2004 The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca By Kevin Terraciano. (Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv +514 pp., introduction, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, maps,figures. $65.00 cloth.) Robert M. Hill, II Robert M. Hill, II Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 213–215. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-1-213 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Kaqchikel Chronicles: The Definitive Edition
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché
Book Review| July 01 2006 Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché. By C. Roger Nance, Stephen L. Whittington, and Barbara E. Borg. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2003. xxiv + 407 pp., foreword, 157 black-and-white illustrations, 4 maps, 80 tables, 5 appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Robert M. Hill, II Robert M. Hill, II Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
Three Families: Genealogies and Processes among the Sixteenth-Century Kaqchikel Maya
The new political offices introduced after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica created new challenges and opportunities for indigenous elites and their supporters. This article traces the careers of three Kaqchikel-Maya families in sixteenth-century Guatemala and reveals a range of concerns about and strategies for maintaining and enhancing aspects of their preconquest social status
Chinamit and Molab: Late Posclassic Highland Maya Precursors of Closed Corporate Community
This article explores the extent to which documentary evidence from the early Colonial period in Guatemala can be used to demonstrate the existance of closed corporate community as an organizing principle of basic Highland Maya socio-cultural units during the Late Postclassic period (ca. AD 1200-1524). Our ability to detect various aspects of closed corporate community among the ancient Highland Maya allows a more ethnographic characterization of…
Instances of Maya Witchcraft in the 18th Century Totonicapan Area
Of all subjects in Maya culture and all periods of its history, none is less well known than the world-view of Maya people during the Colonial period. The methodological problem is formidable. How can one discover the beliefs, the world view of this largely non-literate people? To what documents can one turn for information on such a subject? The major Colonial chronicles are of some help in this regard as are the Spanish-Maya dictionaries of the…
Rubén Elías Reina (1924-2016)
History (18 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Latin American history and culture (14 works) · Maya (10 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Ethnology (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Geography (7 works)