1. Career

2. Published works

3. Notes

4. References

5. External links

Ross Hassig (born December 13, 1945) ^[1] is an American historical anthropologist specializing in Mesoamerican studies, particularly the Aztec culture. His focus is often on the description of practical infrastructure in Mesoamerican societies. He is the author of several influential{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} books, among them: Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico; Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control; and Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico.

Career

Hassig began his academic career as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, where his studies initially focused on non-Western legal systems. He soon developed an interest in anthropology, later obtaining in 1974 his Master's degree from Vanderbilt in Law and Anthropology, with a thesis on political development among the Puebloan peoples at Acoma Pueblo. He then went on further his graduate studies at Stanford University, obtaining his Ph.D from the Department of Anthropology there in 1980.^[2]

During his time at Stanford, Hassig's research agenda shifted to focus on the cultures of Mesoamerica, where he investigated the economic and political foundations of pre- and post-conquest societies. Among the first of his studies was directed towards the underpinnings of the pre-Columbian Tarascan state.^[2]

For 1989–90 he was a scholar-in-residence of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, with a research project entitled "Warfare and the Mesoamerican Past".^[3]

In 1997–98 Hassig spent a year as Resident Scholar under the Weatherhead Fellowship program at the School of American Research^[4] in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a primary focus on researching the Aztec calendar.^[2]

In the 1999 United Kingdom academic year, Hassig was awarded one of the two residential Visiting Fellowships offered annually by the Sainsbury Research Unit at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, towards the study of 'Aztec thought and culture'.^[5]

Hassig held a chair as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, until 2003 when he relocated to Tucson, Arizona.^[6] Since leaving OU Hassig has remained an independent scholar and author, continuing his research into Mesoamerican cultures and state societies.^[7]

Published works

Hassig's published works include:

authored books—

• {{cite book |author=Hassig, Ross|year=1985 |title=Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico |series=Civilization of the American Indian series, no. 171 |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=xvi, 364 pp.|isbn=0-8061-1911-X |oclc=11469622}}
• {{cite book |author=Hassig, Ross|year=1988 |title=Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control |series=Civilization of the American Indian series, no. 188 |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=xx, 404 pp.|isbn=0-8061-2121-1 |oclc=17106411}}
• {{cite book|author=Hassig, Ross|year=1992 |title=War and Society in Ancient Mesoamerica |location=Berkeley|publisher=University of California Press |pages=x, 337 pp.|isbn=0-520-07734-2 |oclc=25007991}}
• {{cite book|author=Hassig, Ross|year=1994 |title=Mexico and the Spanish Conquest |location=London and New York|publisher=Longman |pages=ix, 206 pp.|isbn=0-582-06828-2 |oclc=27172332}}
• {{cite book|author=Hassig, Ross|year=2001 |title=Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico |location=Austin |publisher=University of Texas Press |pages=xv, 220 pp.|isbn=0-292-73139-6 |oclc=44167649}}
• {{cite book|author=Hassig, Ross|year=2006 |title=Mexico and the Spanish Conquest |edition=2nd revised|location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=xvii, 261 pp.|isbn=978-0-8061-3793-3 |oclc=64594483}}

edited books—

• {{cite book |editor=Spores, Ronald |editor-link=Ronald Spores |editor2=Ross Hassig |year=1984 |title=Five Centuries of Law and Politics in Central Mexico |series=Vanderbilt University publications in anthropology, no. 30 |pages=286 pp.|location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Vanderbilt University |isbn=0-935462-21-X |oclc=11047747}}

contributed chapters—

• {{cite book|author=Hassig, Ross|year=2007|chapter=Peace, Reconciliation, and Alliance in Aztec Mexico|title=War and Peace in the Ancient World |editor=Kurt A. Raaflaub |editor-link=Kurt A. Raaflaub |series=The Ancient World: Comparative Histories series|others=Kurt A. Raaflaub (series ed.) |location=Malden, MA and Oxford |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |pages=279–298|isbn=978-1-4051-4525-1 |oclc=85819786}}

Notes

References

{{cite book |author=Raaflaub, Kurt A. |authorlink=Kurt Raaflaub|year=2007 |chapter=Notes on contributors|title=War and Peace in the Ancient World |editor=Kurt A. Raaflaub |series=The Ancient World: Comparative Histories series|others=Kurt A. Raaflaub (series ed.) |location=Malden, MA and Oxford |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |pages=ix–xii|isbn=978-1-4051-4525-1 |oclc=85819786}}

{{cite web |author=School for Advanced Research |authorlink=School for Advanced Research |year=n.d. |title=Ross Hassig: Rethinking the Aztec Calendar |url=http://www.sarweb.org/scholars/scholars/individuals/scholars97-98/hassig.htm |work=Resident Scholar Fellowship Program - past scholars |publisher=School for Advanced Research |accessdate=2008-04-07 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120171306/http://www.sarweb.org/scholars/scholars/individuals/scholars97-98/hassig.htm |archivedate=2008-11-20}}

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