Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Yaxcabá, Yucatán, México

Publications

Alexander, Rani T. 2006 Maya Settlement Shifts and Agrarian Ecology in Yucatán, 1800-2000. Journal of Anthropological Research 62(4):449-470.

Alexander, Rani T. 2004. Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Alexander, Rani T. 2003 Architecture, Haciendas, and Economic Change in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico. Ethnohistory, Special Issue: Beyond the Hacienda: Agrarian Relations and Socioeconomic Change in Rural Mesoamerica, 50 (1): 191-220.

Alexander, Rani T. 1999 Households and Communities in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico, 1750-1847. In At the Interface of Households and Beyond, edited by Nicola Tannenbaum and David Small, pp.175-199. Monographs in Economic Anthropology No. 15. University Press of America, Lanham.

Alexander, Rani T. 1999 Mesoamerican House Lots and Archaeological Site Structure: Problems of Inference in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico, 1750-1847. In The Archaeology of Household Activities, edited by Penelope M. Allison, pp. 78-100. Routledge, London.

Alexander, Rani T. 1999 The Emerging World System and Colonial Yucatan: The Archaeology of Core-Periphery Integration, 1780-1847. In Leadership, Production, and Exchange: World Systems Theory in Practice, edited by P. Nicholas Kardulias, pp. 103-124. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland.

Alexander, Rani T. 1998 Community Organization in the Parroquia de Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico, 1750-1847: Implications for Household Adaptation within a Changing Colonial Economy. Ancient Mesoamerica 9 (1998):39-54.

Alexander, Rani T. 1997 Haciendas and Economic Change in Yucatan: Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Parroquia de Yaxcaba, 1775-1850. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Special Issue: New Approaches to Combining the Archaeological and Historical Records Vol. 4, Nos., 3/4: 331-351.

Alexander, Rani T. 1997 Late Colonial Period Settlement Patterns in Yaxcaba Parish, Yucatan, Mexico: Implications for the Distribution of Land and Population Before the Caste War. In Approaches to the Historical Archaeology of Mexico, Central and South America, edited by Janine Gasco, Greg Smith, and Patricia Fournier-García, pp. 29-40. UCLA Institute of Archaeology, Monograph No. 38.

Alexander, Rani T. 1993. Colonial Period Archaeology of the Parroquia de Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico: An Ethnohistorical and Site Structural Analysis. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Alexander, Rani T. 1991. Historic Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Yaxcaba Parish, Yucatan. A report to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro Regional de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.

Papers Presented

2005 Maya settlement shifts and agrarian ecology in Yucatan, 1800-2000. Invited paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, November 16-20, 2005, Santa Fe, NM.

2002 Discussant's Comments for "The Classic Case: Exploring the Pre-Hispanic Origins of Maya Resistance." Presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 20-24, 2002, Denver.

2002 Pueblos and Ranchos in Yucatan: Logistic Settlement Systems and Maya Mobility. Invited Paper presented at the 2002 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January 9-12, Mobile, Alabama.

1997 Cattle Estates in the Parroquia de Yaxcaba, Yucatan: "Haciendas" by any other name? Invited Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, November 13-16, 1997, Mexico, D.F.

1996 Households and Communties in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, 1750-1847. Invited Paper presented at the 95th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 20-24, 1996, San Francisco.

1996 Haciendas, Archaeology, and the Historical Record: Methods for Interpreting Economic Change. Invited Paper presented at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 10-14, 1996, New Orleans.

1995 The Emerging World System and the Spanish Colonization of Mesoamerica: Archaeological Indicators of Economic Integration During the Colonial Period. Invited Paper presented at the 94th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 15-19, 1995, Washington, D.C.

1995 Settlement Organization in the Parroquia de Yaxcaba: Archaeological Consequences of Political‑Economic Expansion in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Yucatan. Invited Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, March 9‑12, 1995 Indianapolis, Indiana.

1994 Archaeology on the Colonial Frontier: The Spanish World System As Viewed From Its Yucatecan Periphery. Invited Paper presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, California.

1993 The Political Landscape and Settlement Archaeology in Colonial Period Yaxcaba Parish, Yucatan, Mexico. Invited Paper presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

1992 Colonialism, Risk Reduction, and the Yucatec Maya. Contributed Paper presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh.

1992 A Survey of Late Colonial Period Sites in Yaxcaba Parish, Yucatan, Mexico: Implications for the Distribution of Land and Population Before the Caste War. Invited Paper presented at the 1992 conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Kingston, Jamaica.

1991 Late Colonial Period Community Organization in Yaxcaba Parish, Yucatan, Mexico. Contributed Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.