Culture and Contact: Charles C. Di Peso’s Gran Chichimeca

Description

Editors: Woosley, Anne I. and Ravesloot, John C.

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: 2 copies.  Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.No tears, bends, or folds.  Remainder stamp on bottom text block.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.   NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Lower rear cover at spine foot has delamination where sticker was applied and has come loose, leaving about a 1″ square slightly discolored.  Upper rear edge at spine head has approx. 1/4″ tear.  Edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (RM): Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s blindstamp on upper corner ffep.  Museum stick on lower half ffep.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Upper front cover edge at spine head has approx. 1/8″ triangular chip.  Upper rear cover edge near flap edge has approx. 1/2″ closed tear.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Conference papers.  Di Peso (1920-1982) spent most of his professional career at the Amerind Foundation (Dragoon, AZ), a private archaeological research facility founded in 1937.  Di Peso’s “Gran Chichimeca” extended on a line from San Francisco, CA to Wichita, KS, south to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, west through the Baja peninsula, then north to San Francisco, an area of approximately 170 million square kilometers.  His fame rests on “Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca”  (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/casas-grandes-a-fallen-trading-center-of-the-gran-chichimeca-3-volume-set/  ).