Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15
832 pages, 7 x 10
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Release Date:01 Apr 1975
ISBN:9781477306864
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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15

Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Parts Three and Four

University of Texas Press

Volumes 14 and 15 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979), constitute Parts 3 and 4 of the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. The Guide has been assembled under the volume editorship of the late Howard F. Cline, Director of the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress, with Charles Gibson, John B. Glass, and H. B. Nicholson as associate volume editors. It covers geography and ethnogeography (Volume 12); sources in the European tradition (Volume 13); and sources in the native tradition: prose and pictorial materials, checklist of repositories, title and synonymy index, and annotated bibliography on native sources (Volumes 14 and 15).

The present volumes contain the following studies on sources in the native tradition:

“A Survey of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass

“A Census of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass in collaboration with Donald Robertson

“Techialoyan Manuscripts and Paintings, with a Catalog,” by Donald Robertson

“A Census of Middle American Testerian Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass

“A Catalog of Falsified Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass

“Prose Sources in the Native Historical Tradition,” by Charles Gibson and John B. Glass

“A Checklist of Institutional Holdings of Middle American Manuscripts in the Native Historical Tradition,” by John B. Glass

“The Botutini Collection,” by John B. Glass

“Middle American Ethnohistory: An Overview” by H. B. Nicholson

The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Robert Wauchope (1909–1979) was the director of the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University.
  • Abbreviations
  • Volume 14
    • 22. A Survey of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts (John B. Glass)
      • Nomenclature and Format Terminology
      • Picture and Hieroglyphic Writing
      • Origins of the Extant Manuscripts
        • Preconquest Survivals
        • Spanish Patronage
        • Native Colonial
        • Mixed Colonial
      • Research and Publication
      • Guides and Bibliographies
      • Classification
        • Ritual-Calendrical Manuscripts
        • Historical Manuscripts
        • Genealogical Manuscripts
        • Cartographic Manuscripts
        • Cartographic-historical Manuscripts
        • Economic Manuscripts
        • Ethnographic Manuscripts
        • Miscellaneous and Unclassified Manuscripts
        • Unavailable Manuscripts
      • Regional Survey
        • Western Mexico
        • Central Mexico
        • The Borgia Group
        • State of Oaxaca
        • Southeastern Mexico and Guatemala
    • 23. A Census of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts (John B. Glass in collaboration with Donald Robertson)
    • 24. Techialoyan Manuscripts and Paintings, with a Catalog (Donald Robertson)
      • Material of the Manuscripts
      • Format
      • Content
      • Purpose
      • Location
      • Style
      • Date of the Techialoyan Manuscripts
      • Importance of the Techialoyan Group
      • Catalog of Techialoyan Manuscripts and Paintings by Donald Robertson and Martha Barton Robertson
    • 25. A Census of Middle American Testerian Manuscripts (John B. Glass)
    • 26. A Catalog of Falsified Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts (John B. Glass)
    • Illustrations
  • Volume 15
    • 27. Prose Sources in the Native Historical Tradition
      • A. A Survey of Middle American Prose Manuscripts in the Native Historical Tradition (Charles Gibson)
        • Excluded Material
        • Historical Texts: Pictorial, Oral, and Prose
        • The Transition to Prose
        • Annals
        • Chronicles
        • History and Prophecy
        • Indian Informants
        • Títulos
      • B. A Census of Middle American Prose Manuscripts in the Native Historical Tradition (Charles Gibson and John B. Glass)
        • Northern and Western Mexico
        • Central Mexico
        • Lowlands Maya
        • Highland Maya
    • 28. A Checklist of Institutional Holdings of Middle American Manuscripts in the Native Historical Tradition (John B. Glass)
    • 29. The Boturini Collection (John B. Glass)
      • The Inventories
      • The Twenty Volumes
      • Traditional Pictorial Manuscripts
      • Techialoyan Manuscripts
      • Testerian Manuscripts
      • Prose Manuscripts
      • Summary
    • 30. Middle American Ethnohistory: An Overview (H. B. Nicholson)
      • Pre-Hispanic Ethnohistory
        • Sources
        • Areal Considerations
        • Major Problems
        • Progress to Date
        • Outstanding Needs
      • Post-Contact Ethnohistory
        • Sources
        • Areal Considerations
        • Major Problems
        • Progress to Date
        • Outstanding Needs
      • Final Observations
    • 31. Index of Authors, Titles, and Synonyms (John B. Glass)
    • 32. Annotated References (John B. Glass)

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