Research Catalog

Title

Ethno- and historical geographic studies in Latin America : essays honoring William V. Davidson / edited by Peter H. Herlihy, Kent Mathewson, and Craig S. Revels.

Publication

Baton Rouge, LA : Geoscience Pubs : Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Herlihy, Peter H.
• Mathewson, Kent, 1946-
• Revels, Craig Stephen, 1966-
• Davidson, William V.
• Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Department of Geography and Anthropology.
• Association of American Geographers.

Description

342, [4] pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Geoscience and man ; v. 40

Uniform Title

Geoscience and man ; v. 40.

Alternative Title

Essays honoring William V. Davidson

Subjects

• Geographers > Biography
• Latin America > Historical geography
• Davidson, William V
• Ethnology > Latin America

Note

• "Of these 15 essays, four were presented as papers ... in Davidson's honor at the 2003 meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New Orleans"--Page [7].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introductory essays: William Van Davidson, ethno- and historical geographer of Central America / Peter H. Herlihy, Kent Mathewson, and Craig S. Revels -- Irreverent musings on the dissertation in Latin Americanist geography / Daniel W. Gade.
• Central American sites and situations: Ethnogeography of the dooryard orchard garden of the Yucatecan Maya / Peter H. Herlihy, and Frederick M. Wiseman -- Ethnogeography of the Mayangna of Nicaragua / Derek A. Smith -- Ethnic landscapes, ethnic ecology : place attachment and ethnic identity following a Caribbean hurrican / Joby Bass -- Neither Black nor Indian : the discourse of Miskitu racial identity in Honduras / Laura hobson Herlihy -- Portrait, landscape, mirror : reflections on return fieldwork / Kendra McSweeney -- Exploring the Archivo municipal to understand forest use in Guajiquiro, Honduras / Scott Brady -- Not always oriented : Honduran plaza-church locational relations / Benjamin F. Tillman -- On Olancho : geographers, spatial identities, and the construction of a region / Mark Bonta -- Failed site and situation, Omoa, Honduras, 1744-1800 / Taylor E. Mack -- Banks and booms in the mid-day sun : place names and the Honduran mahogany trade / Craig S. Revels.
• Farther afield : Latin America at large: Coastal Ecuador's Montubios in ethnogeographic and historical perspective / Kent Mathewson -- From jute farming to cattle ranching : changing land uses on the floodplains of the Middle Amazon / Mário Hiraoka and Stephen A. Thompson -- Discovery, study and bibliography of Amazonian dark earths, 1870s-1970s / William I. Woods and William M. Denevan -- Misreading between the lines : evidence and interpretation of ancient settlements in Eastern Sonora, Mexico / William E. Doolittle -- Dark Christs and Brown Virgins : writing against the past / Miles Richardson.

Call Number

ReCAP 15-19392

ISBN

• 0938909223
• 9780938909224

OCLC

614570179

Title

Ethno- and historical geographic studies in Latin America : essays honoring William V. Davidson / edited by Peter H. Herlihy, Kent Mathewson, and Craig S. Revels.

Imprint

Baton Rouge, LA : Geoscience Pubs : Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, ©2008.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Geoscience and man ; v. 40

Geoscience and man ; v. 40.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Herlihy, Peter H.

Mathewson, Kent, 1946-

Revels, Craig Stephen, 1966-

Davidson, William V.

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Department of Geography and Anthropology.

Association of American Geographers.

Other Form:

Online version: Ethno- and historical geographic studies in Latin America. Baton Rouge, LA : Geoscience Pubs. : Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, ©2008 (OCoLC)759095132

Research Call Number

ReCAP 15-19392