This ethnographic study examines the culture and social transformations in Hueyapan, Morelos, focusing on the rain petition ritual and the daily life of its inhabitants. Through interviews and direct observation, it documents ...

De las diferentes plantas empleadas por los antiguos nahuas como alucinógenas y catalogadas por Sahagún en el llamado Códice Florentino, Alfredo López Austin presenta algunas

This study examines the relief located at the base of the Coatlicue monolith, symbolizing Mictlan, the underworld, in Nahua culture. Drawing on historical sources and a recent mold, it identifies symbolic elements linking ...

This work by Fernando Anaya Monroy analyzes the legal consciousness of Mexicans during the 1910 Revolution. The author examines how society perceived and reacted to the prevailing legal norms, beyond mere compliance imposed ...

Junto al tecpillatolli, forma elegante de hablar propia de la gente culta, y al macehuallatolli, el lenguaje popular, existía en el idioma náhuatl la jerga usada por los brujos, curanderos y adivinos en sus conjuros. A ...

Reseña de Alfonso Alcalá Alvarado: Una pugna diplomática ante la Santa Sede. El restablecimiento del episcopado en México, 1825-1831. México, Editorial Porrúa, S. A., 1967. 398 pp

The Aztec manuscript preserved at the Museo del Ejército in Madrid is a pictorial document with texts in Náhuatl, possibly dated to 1526. Its significance lies in being a visual and written testimony of the social, religious, ...