Title: The Meeting of two worlds :
Authors: Bray, Warwick.; British Academy.
Date: 1993
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
Physical description: 336 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Abstract: Niet voor opname in BNAA. Anneke R.
Contents: The nature of the conquest and the conquistadors / Alistair Hennessy -- The cultural mosaic of the indigenous Caribbean / Samuel M. Wilson -- From contact to Criollos : the archaeology of Spanish colonization in Hispaniola / Kathleen Deagan and José Maria Cruxent -- Worlds in collision : the Maya/Spanish encounter in sixteenth and seventeenth century Belize / David M. Pendergast -- Sacred power in colonial Mexico : the case of sixteenth century central Yucatan / Nancy Farriss -- Trauma and transition in sixteenth century central Mexico / Frances F. Berdan -- Native American cultures along the Atlantic littoral of South America, 1499-1650 / Neil L. Whitehead -- On biological exchanges between the two worlds / Don Brothwell -- The demographic collapse of native peoples of the Americas, 1492-1650 / Linda A. Newson -- Crop plants and cannibals : early European impressions of the new world / Warwick Bray
Notes: Papers given at a one-day symposium organized by the British Academy.
Subject headings (LCSH): America--Civilization--History.; America--Civilization.; Culture--History--Congresses.; Europeans--America--History.; Indians--First contact with Europeans; Indians--First contact with other peoples.