About: Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FOxford_Encyclopedia_of_Mesoamerican_Cultures&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is a three-volume set of articles by many specialists under the general editorship of David Carrasco. Published in 2001, the encyclopedia builds on and updates the sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians (1964–76). The work's coverage spans Mesoamerica from the prehispanic era to the turn of the twenty-first century. Articles are presented alphabetically, but a synoptic outline of contents gives the titles of principal articles. These include geography and history; Mesoamerican cultures and ethnicities; Mesoamerican studies, with an overview article and articles on approaches, methods, and institutions; written and oral sources divided into prehispanic manuscripts and colonial manuscripts and sources; economy and subsistence; soci

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures (en)
rdfs:comment
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is a three-volume set of articles by many specialists under the general editorship of David Carrasco. Published in 2001, the encyclopedia builds on and updates the sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians (1964–76). The work's coverage spans Mesoamerica from the prehispanic era to the turn of the twenty-first century. Articles are presented alphabetically, but a synoptic outline of contents gives the titles of principal articles. These include geography and history; Mesoamerican cultures and ethnicities; Mesoamerican studies, with an overview article and articles on approaches, methods, and institutions; written and oral sources divided into prehispanic manuscripts and colonial manuscripts and sources; economy and subsistence; soci (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is a three-volume set of articles by many specialists under the general editorship of David Carrasco. Published in 2001, the encyclopedia builds on and updates the sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians (1964–76). The work's coverage spans Mesoamerica from the prehispanic era to the turn of the twenty-first century. Articles are presented alphabetically, but a synoptic outline of contents gives the titles of principal articles. These include geography and history; Mesoamerican cultures and ethnicities; Mesoamerican studies, with an overview article and articles on approaches, methods, and institutions; written and oral sources divided into prehispanic manuscripts and colonial manuscripts and sources; economy and subsistence; social political and religious organization, with principal articles on civil-religious hierarchy, ethnicity, family and kinship, gender, labor, law, political organization, land tenure, slavery, social stratification, an urbanization; social differentiation; institutions and organizations; cultural interaction and processes of social change; cosmovision and ritual performance, creative expressions and material forms; Mesoamerican sites, cities, and ceremonial centers. There are also biographies of historical figures as well as scholars of Mesoamerican culture. There is no coverage of colonialism per se, or race and racial conflict. (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 67 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software