The publication of Volume 16 of this distinguished series brings to a close one of the largest research and documentation projects ever undertaken on the Middle American Indians.

Since the publication of Volume 1 in 1964, the Handbook of Middle American Indians has provided the most complete information on every aspect of indigenous culture, including natural environment, archaeology, linguistics, social anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnology, and ethnohistory.

Culminating this massive project is Volume 16, divided into two parts. Part I, Sources Cited, by Margaret A. L. Harrison, is a listing in alphabetical order of all the bibliographical entries cited in Volumes 1-11. (Volumes 12-15, comprising the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, have not been included, because they stand apart in subject matter and contain or constitute independent bibliographical material.) Part II, Location of Artifacts Illustrated, by Marjorie S. Zengel, details the location (at the time of original publication) of the owner of each pre-Columbian American artifact illustrated in Volumes 1-11 of the Handbook, as well as the size and the catalog, accession, and/or inventory number that the owner assigns to the object. The two parts of Volume 16 provide a convenient and useful reference to material found in the earlier volumes.

The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

This volume includes “Fabricating Celts: How Iron Age Iberians Became Indo-Europeanized during the Franco Regime,” by Aarón Alzola Romero and Eduardo Sánchez-Moreno; “Nations in Tune: The Influence of Irish Music on the Breton Musical Revival in the 1960s and 1970s,” by Yann Bévant; “Ethnicity, Geography, and the Passage of Dominion in the Mabinogi and Brut y Brenhinedd,” by Christina Chance; “Rejecting Mother’s Blessing: The Absence of the Fairy in the Welsh Search for Identity,” by Adam Coward; “Gwalarn: An Attempt to Renew Breton Literature,” by Gwendal Denez and Erwan Hupel; “At the Crossroads: World War One and the Shifting Roles of Men and Women in Breton Ballad Song Practice,” by Natalie Anne Franz; “Apocryphal Sanctity in the Lives of Irish Saints,” by Máire Johnson; “An Dialog etre Arzur Roe d’an Bretounet ha Guynglaff and Its Connections with Arthurian Tradition,” by Herve Le Bihan; “A Walk on the Wild Side: Women, Men, and Madness,” by Edyta Lehmann; “The Early Establishment of Celtic Studies in North American Universities,” by Michael Linkletter; “‘In t-indellchró bodba fer talman’: A Reading of Cú Chulainn’s First Recension ríastrad,” by Elizabeth Moore; “Dream and Vision in Late-Medieval Scotland: The Epic Case of William Wallace,” by Kylie Murray; “‘Some of you will curse her’: Women’s Writing during the Irish-Language Revival,” by Riona Nic Congáil; “Dating Peredur: New Light on Old Problems,” by Natalia I. Petrovskaia; “‘From the shame you have done’: Comparing the Stories of Blodeuedd and Bláthnait,” by Sarah L. Pfannenschmidt; and “‘And there was a fourth son’: Narrative Variation in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys,” by Kelly Ann Randell.