Helen Perlstein Pollard
American academic
Helen Perlstein Pollard's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Engineering Computer Science
Helen Perlstein Pollard's Degrees
- Masters Electrical Engineering Stanford University
Why Is Helen Perlstein Pollard Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen Perlstein Pollard is an American academic ethnohistorian and archaeologist, known for her publications and research on pre-Columbian cultures in the west-central Mexico region. Biography As an undergraduate Pollard studied at Barnard College, a women's liberal arts college in New York City affiliated with Columbia University, graduating in 1967. One of her contemporaries at Barnard, who graduated two years earlier, was Esther Pasztory, another Mesoamerican scholar who became renowned as an art historian and specialist in Teotihuacano art. Pollard obtained her PhD in anthropology in 1972, awarded by Columbia University, with a dissertation entitled "Prehispanic Urbanism at Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan".
Helen Perlstein Pollard's Published Works
Published Works
- A reexamination of human-induced environmental change within the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico (2003) (113)
- Taríacuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State (1993) (93)
- Recent research in west Mexican archaeology (1997) (52)
- Mortuary Patterns of Regional Elites in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin of Western Mexico (1999) (51)
- A MODEL OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE TARASCAN STATE (2008) (47)
- Intensive agriculture and socio-political development in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico (1999) (43)
- Lake level change, climate, and the impact of natural events: the role of seismic and volcanic events in the formation of the Lake Patzcuaro Basin, Michoacan, Mexico (2005) (42)
- The Political Economy of Prehispanic Tarascan Metallurgy (1987) (38)
- Ecological variation and economic exchange in the Tarascan state (1982) (27)
- Specialization of ceramic production: A sherd assemblage based analytic perspective (2010) (24)
- Central Places and Cities: A Consideration of the Protohistoric Tarascan State (1980) (23)
- Agrarian Potential, Population, and the Tarascan State (1980) (18)
- Factional competition and political development in the New World: Ethnicity and political control in a complex society: the Tarascan state of prehispanic Mexico (1994) (12)
- The Construction of Ideology in the Emergence of the Prehispanic Tarascan State (1991) (12)
- CERAMICS, SOCIAL STATUS, AND THE TARASCAN STATE ECONOMY (2016) (4)
- Merchant Colonies, Semi-Mesoamericans, and the Study of Cultural Contact: A Comment on Anawalt (1993) (4)
- Markets, tribute, and class in Tarascan commodity consumption: the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin (2017) (4)
- Ruling “Purépecha Chichimeca” in a Tarascan World (2016) (3)
- Tarícuri’s Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State (1994) (2)
- Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics, and the History of Early Colonial Michoacan, Mexico, 1521-1565 (review) (2003) (2)
- Prehispanic Archeology, Ethnohistory, and Soil Erosion: A Debate Over Modern Agricultural Sustainability (1994) (2)
- The Chantuto People: An Archaic Period Society of the Chiapas Littoral, Mexico. Barbara Voorhies. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, Number 41, 1976. xvi + 147 pp., illus. $7.50. (1979) (1)
- West Mexico Postclassic (2001) (1)
- Ideology, Power and Prehistory. Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley, editors. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1984. vii + 157 pp., figures, references, index. $39.50 (cloth). (1986) (0)
- Journals review (1992) (0)
- Mesoamerican Ritual Economy: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives. Edited by E. Christian Wells and Karla L. Davis‐salazar. (Boulder, Colo.: The University Press of Colorado, 2007. Pp. xiv, 336. $65.00.) (2009) (0)
- Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists (2005) (0)
- Tradition Summary: West Mexico Postclassic (2001) (0)
- AQY volume 73 issue 281 Cover and Front matter (1999) (0)
- Nahua Merchants in a Tarascan World (2015) (0)
- Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography. Jeffrey R. Parsons and Mary H. Parsons. (1992) (0)
- Teotihuacan site 19:N1W5: Mortuary and oxygen isotope evidence for a Michoacan affiliation (2023) (0)
- Taricuri's Legacy: The Prehistoric Tarascan State (1994) (0)
- Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past. Richard Townsend, editor. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1998. 308 pp., 258 figures, bibliography. $50.00 (cloth). (1999) (0)
- Michoacan and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico (review) (2001) (0)
- Archaeology and Public Policy (1994) (0)
- Research standards and archaeological monographs: The case of cozumel (1977) (0)
- ecological variation and economic exchange in the (2016) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Helen Perlstein Pollard
What Schools Are Affiliated With Helen Perlstein Pollard?
Helen Perlstein Pollard is affiliated with the following schools: