The Historical Demography of Highland Guatemala

Abstract

This publication contains 16 papers originally prepared for a symposium on the historical demography of highland Guatemala held in Albany New York in October 1979. The aim of the symposium was summarize the findings to date on highland Guatemala historical demography and lay the groundwork for future studies. Separate sections are included on the pre-Hispanic period the colonial period and the modern period. Individual papers deal with topics such as sources of data population and agricultural adaptation prehistoric demography patterns of demographic change native population decline social and demographic patterns in an eighteenth-century census mortality demographic characteristics of peasant systems changes in ethnic population proportions and the interrelationships among demography development and modernization. (EXCERPT)

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