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The biocultural consequences of contact in Mexico : five centuries of change / edited by Heather J. H. Edgar and Cathy Willermet ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

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"This volume examines how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by European colonization, drawing on methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history and providing evidence for the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous change&q...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Edgar, Heather J. H. (Editor), Willermet, C. M. (Catherine M.), 1968- (Editor), Larsen, Clark Spencer (writer of foreword.)
Other title:Biocultural consequences of contact in Mexico : 5 centuries of change
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2023]
Series:Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Subjects:
Mexico > Civilization > European influences.
Mexico > Social life and customs > European influences.
Mexico > Colonization.
Mexico > Civilization > Sources.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > History.
Europe > Emigration and immigration > History.
Civilization
Civilization > European influences
Colonization
Emigration and immigration
Europe
Mexico
History
Sources
Table of Contents:
  • Contextualizing the Biocultural Examination of Colonization in Mexico / Heather J. H. Edgar and Cathy Willermet
  • Movement, Power, and Race: Dynamics of Colonialism in Mexico /
  • Robert C. Schwaller
  • Spanish/North African Population Affinity: Implications for North American Mestizos / Heather J. H. Edgar, Katelyn M. Rusk, Corey S. Ragsdale, and Cathy Willermet
  • The Domestication of Death among the Natives of New Spain Seen from the Cemetery of the Royal Hospital of San José de los Naturales / Abigail Meza-Peñaloza
  • Biocultural Impacts of Labor in Colonial Mexico City: The Intersections of Age, Sex, and Heritage / Julie K. Wesp
  • The Microevolution of Dental Morphology in the Northern Maya Lowlands after European Contact / Andrea Cucina, Michaela Lucci, and Alfredo Coppa
  • Regional Changes in Population Structures with Spanish Contact / Corey S. Ragsdale, Cathy Willermet, and Heather J. H. Edgar
  • Genetic Diversity in Mesoamerica, Pre- and Postcontact / Blanca Z. Gonzalez-Sobrino Living and Health Conditions in a Religious Order: The Nuns from San Jerónimo, Mexico City / Josefina Bautista Martínez and María Teresa Jaén Esquivel
  • A View of Stress and Inequality in Colonial Mexico City through Cranial Fluctuating Asymmetry / Cathy Willermet, Emily Moes, Katelyn M. Rusk, Heather J. H. Edgar, and Corey S. Ragsdale
  • Reflections on 1521 and the Bioarchaeological Study of the Conquest of Mexico / Haagen D. Klaus.

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