ABOUT THIS BOOK

The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Thomas B. Hinton specialized in the study of native people of northwestern Mexico. He taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Colorado, and was professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona at the time of his death in 1976.

Phil C. Weigland has done fieldwork throughout the American Southwest and Mexico, specializing in the archaeology and ethnology of western and northwestern Mexico. He holds a B.A. degree in History from Indiana University and a Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University.

REVIEWS

"This 76-page contribution to our knowledge of the history of the Indians of northwest Mexico is a major one. . . . There is much information here that has never before seen the light of print."—Southwestern Mission Research Center

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

1. Cultural Visibility and the Cora - Thomas B. Hinton

2. Some Considerations of the Indirect and Controlled Acculturation in the Cora-Huichol Area - Salomon Nahmad Sitton

3. Differential Acculturation Among the Huichol Indians - Phil C. Weigand

4. The Mayo of Southern Sonora: Socio-economic Assimilation and Ritual-symbolic Syncretism-Split Acculturation - N. Ross Crumrine

5. Adaptive Strategies of Peasant Indians in a Biethnic Mexican Community: A Study of Mountain Pima Assimilation - Timothy Dunnigan

6. Some Problems in the Analysis of the Native Indian Population of Northern Nueva Vizcaya During the Spanish Colonial Period - William B. Griffen

7. Tepusilam and Chul: A Comparison of Mexicanero and Tepehuan Mythology - John Hobgood and Carroll L. Riley

8. The Ceremonialism of the Tepecan Indians of Azqueltan, Jalisco - J. Alden Mason