Cultures of Mexico - James W. Dow

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Books

1975 The Otomí of the Northern Sierra de Puebla, Mexico: An Ethnographic Outline. Monograph Series No. 12. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Latin American Studies Center.

Articles and Chapters

2005 The Sierra Ñähñu (Otomí). Chapter 11, pp. 231 to 254 in Alan R. Sandstrom and E. Hugo García Valencía, eds. Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (2005). Contains a basic description of Sierra Ñähñu lifeways indlucing agriculture and religion.

2004 Prologue In Hablar de Otros: Miradas y Voces del Mundo Tepehua. by David Lagunas. México, D.F and Barcelona: Plaza y Valdés.

2001 Protestantism in Mesoamerica: The Old within the New, In Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America. Edited by James W. Dow and Alan R. Sandstrom. Pp. 1-23. Westport CT: Praeger.

2001 Demographic Factors Affecting Protestant Conversions in Three Mexican Villages, In Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America. Edited by James W. Dow Alan R. Sandstrom. Pp. 73-86. Westport CT: Praeger.

2000 Otomían and Purépechan Cultures of Central Mexico. In Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians. Austin: University of Texas Press.

1999 Background to Rebellion: The Roots of the Zapatista Uprising. Newsletter of the Cranbrook Peace Foundation. 10(2):1,3.

1998 The Locations of Ñähñu (Otomí), Nahua, Totonac, Tepehua, and Spanish Speaking People of the Eastern Sierra of Hidalgo, the Northern Sierra de Puebla, and the Southern Huasteca. These maps show the distribution of all languages spoken in and around the eastern sierra of Hidalgo of Mexico. There are separate maps for the distribution of the Nahua (Aztec, Mexicano), Ñähñu (Otomí), Totonac, Tepehua, and Spanish, languages. The maps were developed during ethnographic field work in 1989 and 1990 and cover the area from 20° to 20° 45' north latitude and from 97° 40' to 98° 30' west longitude. The article The article Mapping of Cultural Traits from Field Data (Social Science Computer Review. 12(4):479-492). describes the techniques for making of these maps and the sources of the data. A database with the names, locations, and languages for all the villages in the region is included.

1996 Ritual Prestation, Intermediate-Level Social Organization, and Sierra Otomí Oratory Groups. Ethnology 35(3):195-202.

1995 Otomí of the Sierra. In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume 8, Middle American and the Caribbean, James W. Dow, ed. Pp. 200-203. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall/Macmillan.

1995 Tepehua. In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume 8, Middle American and the Caribbean, James W. Dow, ed. Pp. 247-250. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall/Macmillan.

1994 Sierra Otomí: Discovering Religion in a Mesoamerican Indian Society. In Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals. M. Ember, C. Ember, and D. Levinson, eds. New York: Prentice Hall.

1994 Exploring the Mexican Political System. International Economic Letter 36, Spring. Rochester, MI: Oakland University School of Business Administration and Center for International Programs.