Valeria Luiselli’s poignant and heart-wrenching Tell Me How It Ends describes the plight of undocumented children from Mexico and Central America in the US. HLAS 75 also includes studies of contemporary migration. Even ancient teeth can reveal a precolumbian taste for beer, corn, and, a later addition to the prehistoric diet, seafood, “ Corn, Beer, and Marine Resources at Casas Grandes, Mexico: An Analysis of Prehistoric Diets using Microfossils Recovered from Dental Calculus.” Two other works use dental and genetic analysis to trace the movement of Zapotec and Mixtec people in the classic and postclassic periods, “ Oaxaca and its Neighbors in Prehispanic Times” and to understand migration in prehispanic west Mexico, “ Regional Population Structure in Postclassic Mexico.” Three studies draw on dental analysis – recognizing that our teeth give away a good deal about our diets and lifestyles. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.Īrcheologists are using other creative approaches to better understand Mesoamerican peoples. Miniature Classic Period Maya Civilization from the Jay I. You can read more about the Maya flasks in this blog post. An article reviewed in HLAS 75 offers an analysis of 75 of these flasks, “ Maya Flasks: The ‘Home’ of Tobacco and Godly Substances.” Drawing on archeological investigation and chemical analysis, the authors hypothesize that people may have used the flasks as containers for cacao or tobacco. Kislak collection contains nearly 1,400 items related to the history of the early Americas, including over 100 ceremonial and ritual Maya vessels. Occasionally, a publication mentioned in HLAS describes and interprets primary resources in the Library of Congress collections. The Handbook gives Latin American studies researchers that community by relying on established researchers to identify the Library’s essential collections in Latin American studies – especially publications from Latin America. This newer study links the two publications.ĭeveloping effective search strategies for locating desired materials within a collection of over 170 million items takes practice, patience, and community.
At the time, HLAS Contributor for archeology Hasso von Winning included that publication in his submission for Volume 39 (1977).
Joyce notes that the findings of this study contradict previous suppositions of José García Payón in his 1974 book, La zona arqueológica Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca y los Matlatzincas, itself a facsimile of a 1936 edition. The HLAS Contributor for Mesoamerican archeology Arthur A. “ Matlatzinco before the Aztecs: José García Payón and the Sculptural Corpus of Calixtlahuaca,” for instance, illustrates this connection by exploring the origins of a precolumbian Indigenous group in Mesoamerica. Online search systems such as HLAS Web allow immediate linking forward and backward, teaching students that research and interpretations are neither permanent nor static, but instead evolving and changing. HLAS Contributing Editors (CE) call our attention to these connections. Indeed, scholarly publishing is an ongoing dialogue between researchers of past generations and those developing topics of study today. The selection of publications in Volume 75 (2021) reflects current themes in research on Latin America, while harkening back, directly or indirectly, to earlier publications. Spanning more than 80 years of scholarly work, the Handbook records trends and changing methodologies in Latin American studies, building a solid bridge connecting past and current publications. We are excited to announce the publication of Volume 75 of the “Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS).” This milestone is confirmation of the Library’s impressive commitment to promoting scholarship and providing access to its international collections. 2021 Handbook of Latin American Studies: Social Sciences (Vol. Editor’s Note, Tracy North & Katherine D.
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