Middle Americn Research Records, Volume II, Numbers 1-8

174 pages with map, tables (one fold out), figures and charts. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8") issued in green wrappers. From the library of professor George M Foster. Middle American Research Institute Publication 18. First edition.

Contents: Notes and Comments on "Duck-Pots" from Guatemala by Stephen F de Borhegyi; Implications of Radiocarbon Dates from Middle and South America by Robert Wauchope; A Chronological Ordering of the Mesoamerican Pre-Classic by John L Sorenson; Archaeological Remains from the Cintalapa Region, Chiapas, Mexico by Adren R King; Hemispheric Security Reconsidered by Philip B Taylor, Jr; Pre-Columbian Cultural Connections Between Mesoamerica and Ecuador by Stephen F de Borhegyi; Pre-Columbian Cultural Connections Between Mesoamerica and Ecuador: Addenda by Stephen F de Borhegyi; A Developmental Concept of Pre-Spanish Urbanization in the Valley of Mexico by William J Mayer-Oakes.

George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.

Condition:

Foster's stamp to front wrapper. Corners bumped, lightly soiled else a very good copy.