William T Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 89925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William T Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | William T |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS W T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Yixing and Buddhism in Manuals of Internal Alchemy
This essay examines two redactions of a commentary on internal alchemy, no longer extant, preserved in the Daoist Canon, the Zhen longhu jiuxian jing and the Jiuxian pian . The second contains a commentary attributed to the eminent scientist-monk Yixing (673-727), one of the key architects of East Asian esoteric Buddhism. I analyze various materials to clarify the image of Yixing as an alchemist and argue that an anonymous 9th century author prob…
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1: Archaeology
Cultural Ecology of the Maya Lowlands [Part II]
Hemos afirmado anteriormente que la agricultura de tala y quema tiende a producir un patrón de dispersión de la población rural. En términos de conveniencia simple, por supuesto, es siempre ventajoso para cualquier población rural, con independencia del sistema de la agricultura, residir en un asentamiento con el patrón de ranchería. Hemos notado que la población moderna en Tabasco sigue este patrón de asentamiento
Cultural Ecology of the Maya Lowlands
En este trabajo se discutirán algunas de las relaciones entre el medio ambiente y la cultura en el área de las tierras bajas mayas. Vamos a tratar de responder a las siguientes preguntas: 1. ¿Cuáles son los patrones de interacción entre el medio ambiente y el sistema de subsistencia? 2. ¿De qué manera es este último está relacionado con la historia de la población y los patrones de asentamiento? 3. ¿Qué relación existe entre el sistema de subsist…
Robert S. Santley: Student, Teacher, and Researcher
Robert Santley's contributions to our discipline have been multilevel and multifaceted--by this statement I mean he has operated on all levels of research from data collection to evolutionary theory and the training of students to follow the broad anthropological perspective that was central to his career. In this paper I focus on his most innovative and productive research project, the Matacapan Project in southern Veracruz, Mexico
Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru to the Northwest Coast
Introduction - Jessica Joyce Christie Part 1. Identification of Palaces 1. Looking for Moche Palaces in the Elite Residences of the Huacas of Moche Site - Claude Chapdelaine 2. Landscape of Power: A Network of Palaces in Middle Horizon Peru - William H. Isbell 3. Lords of the Great House: Pueblo Bonito as a Palace - Stephen H. Lekson Part 2. Palaces as Active Stage Sets of Political Ideology 4. Sacred and Profane Mountains of the Pasion: Contrast…
The Native Aristocracy and the Evolution of the Latifundio in the Teotihuacán Valley, 1521-1917
Latifundismo, representing a variety of jural types, has characterized land tenure in the Teotihuacán Valley since Aztec, very probably pre-Aztec, times. Throughout the colonia and until the inception of the Republic, the largest single landholder in the valley remained the cacique of Teotihuacán. While much extant literature contrasts the hacienda as a type with the estates of the native aristocracy, we suggest a functional similarity based on c…
Catholicism and Intermarriage in the United States
The Population of the Central Mexican Symbiotic Region, the Basin of Mexico, and the Teotihuacán Valley in the Sixteenth Century
A Simulation of Copan Populatin History and its Implications
Several projects carried out at Copan since 1975 provide extensive settlement data that form the basis for a simulation of Copan population history between A.D. 400–1250. Most important is a set of 2,048 obsidian hydration dates, associated with 15% of all known sites, that allows unprecedented chronological control of occupational episodes at domestic sites of all social ranks. This article summarizes the results of our simulation, and some of i…
Ecology and cultural syncretism in 16th-century Mesoamerica
During the 1930s and 40s most studies of Indian villages in Mesoamerica focussed on acculturation, the adoption and integration of Spanish cultural traits into the native cultural system. This paper summarizes that research, also applying an evolutionary perspective, particularly an ecosystem model. It focusses on the 16th century, when two great cultures - each the product of thousands of years of independent, parallel evolution - clashed and ex…
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition: Reply to Smith
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply]
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition
The process of preindustrial urbanization is an important archeological issue because of its association with the emergence of early complex societies. There is considerable debate among Mesoamerican archeologists concerning both the evolutionary nature of the process itself and the configurations and functions of the centers that might be called "urban." Part of this debate is caused by the variation that clearly exists among such Mesoamerican c…
The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
The jolly green giant in tenth century Yucatan, or fact and fancy in classic Maya agriculture
Peter D. Harrison and B. L. Turner II, eds. Prehispanic Maya Agriculture. University of New Mexico Press, 1978. 414 pp
Commentary
Archaeology: Ancient Civilization and Trade . Jeremy A. Sabloff and C. C. Lamberg‐Karlovsky
A Prehispanic Irrigation System near Santa Clara Xalostoc in the Basin of Mexico
A major theoretical issue in studies of the cultural ecology of Central Mexico has been the role of irrigation in the evolution of the state in that area. A major methodological problem has been the location and dating of prehistoric canal systems. A recent discovery near Xalostoc, of a stratified canal system (representing three distinct periods) in the exposed profiles of contemporary adobe extraction pits, offers an ideal situation for dating …
Demographic Studies in Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Mixtec Kings and Their People
Archeology: Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec, October 28th and 29th, 1967. Elizabeth P. Benson, ed
Early Cultures and Human Ecology in South Coastal Guatemala. M ichael D. C oe and K ent V. F lannery
Archeology: Desarrollo Cultural de los Mayas. Evon Z. Vogt and Albert Ruz L
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition
The process of preindustrial urbanization is an important archeological issue because of its association with the emergence of early complex societies. There is considerable debate among Mesoamerican archeologists concerning both the evolutionary nature of the process itself and the configurations and functions of the centers that might be called "urban." Part of this debate is caused by the variation that clearly exists among such Mesoamerican c…
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
The Mixtec Kings and Their People
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply]
Demographic Studies in Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
A Simulation of Copan Populatin History and its Implications
Several projects carried out at Copan since 1975 provide extensive settlement data that form the basis for a simulation of Copan population history between A.D. 400–1250. Most important is a set of 2,048 obsidian hydration dates, associated with 15% of all known sites, that allows unprecedented chronological control of occupational episodes at domestic sites of all social ranks. This article summarizes the results of our simulation, and some of i…
Cultural Ecology of Nuclear Mesoamerica
The jolly green giant in tenth century Yucatan, or fact and fancy in classic Maya agriculture
Peter D. Harrison and B. L. Turner II, eds. Prehispanic Maya Agriculture. University of New Mexico Press, 1978. 414 pp
A Prehispanic Irrigation System near Santa Clara Xalostoc in the Basin of Mexico
A major theoretical issue in studies of the cultural ecology of Central Mexico has been the role of irrigation in the evolution of the state in that area. A major methodological problem has been the location and dating of prehistoric canal systems. A recent discovery near Xalostoc, of a stratified canal system (representing three distinct periods) in the exposed profiles of contemporary adobe extraction pits, offers an ideal situation for dating …
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition: Reply to Smith
The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense
The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American e…
The Native Aristocracy and the Evolution of the Latifundio in the Teotihuacán Valley, 1521-1917
Latifundismo, representing a variety of jural types, has characterized land tenure in the Teotihuacán Valley since Aztec, very probably pre-Aztec, times. Throughout the colonia and until the inception of the Republic, the largest single landholder in the valley remained the cacique of Teotihuacán. While much extant literature contrasts the hacienda as a type with the estates of the native aristocracy, we suggest a functional similarity based on c…
Archeology: Desarrollo Cultural de los Mayas. Evon Z. Vogt and Albert Ruz L
Reservations to Multilateral Treaties Made in the Act of Ratification or Adherence
The question of the admissibility of reservations to multilateral treaties continues to present problems of great theoretical and practical interest. In particular, there is still considerable uncertainty regarding the procedure which should be followed where a signatory or adhering state desires to formulate reservations in the act of ratification or adherence. This question is of special interest to international organizations such as the Pan A…
The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense
The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American e…
Cultural Ecology of Nuclear Mesoamerica
Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico. H. E. D. Pollock, Ralph L. Roys, T. Proskouriakoff and A. Ledyard Smith
Archeology: Mexico
1. Some of his reasoning sounds circular and inconsistent.He accepts Sears' pollen profile of the Valley of Mexico (which is highly suspect anyway) in which the Classic is visualized as a period of low rainfall, and even suggests that the collapse of Teotihuacan may have been the result of this climatic deterioration.Yet he also unceremoniously denies the role of irrigation in the evolution of the city
Archeology: Desarrollo Cultural de los Mayas. Evon Z. Vogt and Albert Ruz L
Ethnology and Ethnohistory: The Aboriginal Population of Central Mexico on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest. Woodrow Borah and Sherburne F. Cook
Early Cultures and Human Ecology in South Coastal Guatemala. M ichael D. C oe and K ent V. F lannery
Archeology: Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec, October 28th and 29th, 1967. Elizabeth P. Benson, ed
The Mixtec Kings and Their People
Demographic Studies in Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
A Prehispanic Irrigation System near Santa Clara Xalostoc in the Basin of Mexico
A major theoretical issue in studies of the cultural ecology of Central Mexico has been the role of irrigation in the evolution of the state in that area. A major methodological problem has been the location and dating of prehistoric canal systems. A recent discovery near Xalostoc, of a stratified canal system (representing three distinct periods) in the exposed profiles of contemporary adobe extraction pits, offers an ideal situation for dating …
Commentary
Archaeology: Ancient Civilization and Trade . Jeremy A. Sabloff and C. C. Lamberg‐Karlovsky
The jolly green giant in tenth century Yucatan, or fact and fancy in classic Maya agriculture
Peter D. Harrison and B. L. Turner II, eds. Prehispanic Maya Agriculture. University of New Mexico Press, 1978. 414 pp
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply]
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition
The process of preindustrial urbanization is an important archeological issue because of its association with the emergence of early complex societies. There is considerable debate among Mesoamerican archeologists concerning both the evolutionary nature of the process itself and the configurations and functions of the centers that might be called "urban." Part of this debate is caused by the variation that clearly exists among such Mesoamerican c…
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition: Reply to Smith
The Population of the Central Mexican Symbiotic Region, the Basin of Mexico, and the Teotihuacán Valley in the Sixteenth Century
A Simulation of Copan Populatin History and its Implications
Several projects carried out at Copan since 1975 provide extensive settlement data that form the basis for a simulation of Copan population history between A.D. 400–1250. Most important is a set of 2,048 obsidian hydration dates, associated with 15% of all known sites, that allows unprecedented chronological control of occupational episodes at domestic sites of all social ranks. This article summarizes the results of our simulation, and some of i…
Ecology and cultural syncretism in 16th-century Mesoamerica
During the 1930s and 40s most studies of Indian villages in Mesoamerica focussed on acculturation, the adoption and integration of Spanish cultural traits into the native cultural system. This paper summarizes that research, also applying an evolutionary perspective, particularly an ecosystem model. It focusses on the 16th century, when two great cultures - each the product of thousands of years of independent, parallel evolution - clashed and ex…
Catholicism and Intermarriage in the United States
The Native Aristocracy and the Evolution of the Latifundio in the Teotihuacán Valley, 1521-1917
Latifundismo, representing a variety of jural types, has characterized land tenure in the Teotihuacán Valley since Aztec, very probably pre-Aztec, times. Throughout the colonia and until the inception of the Republic, the largest single landholder in the valley remained the cacique of Teotihuacán. While much extant literature contrasts the hacienda as a type with the estates of the native aristocracy, we suggest a functional similarity based on c…
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