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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2007

William R. Fowler ,
Christopher S. Beekman  and
Robert B. Pickering
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Phil C. Weigand has devoted his career to the anthropology and archaeology of the most poorly known area of Mesoamerica, “an enormous area of elaborate cultural development [that] has been relegated to unimportance” (Weigand and Foster 1985:5). We refer, of course, to the Occidente or West Mexico, roughly defined by the states of Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit, often including parts of Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Sinaloa, and sometimes Guerrero. Over the course of his career, Weigand has integrated data from archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography to gain a better understanding of western Mesoamerica. This Special Section is an homenaje to Phil that draws together contributions by some of his friends and colleagues who have felt his influence over the years.

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SPECIAL SECTION: MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SHAFT TOMBS IN WESTERN MEXICO: AN HOMENAJE TO PHIL WEIGAND
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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , July 2006 , pp. 231 - 233
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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