Rani T. Alexander
Rani T. Alexander is a professor of anthropology and the head of the Department of Anthropology at New Mexico State University. She is also the author of Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective (UNM Press) and the coeditor of The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica: Archaeological Perspectives (UNM Press) with Susan Kepecs.
Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion
Archaeological Perspectives
This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica.
- Copyright year: 2019
Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica
Archaeology as Historical Anthropology
This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology’s most crucial goals.
- Copyright year: 2018