This work aims to present two unpublished fragments in Nahuatl of two lectionaries, a type of liturgical book quite widespread and used by the Franciscan evangelizing friars during the six­teenth century in New Spain,in ...

This review examines the book by Andrea Rodríguez Figueroa and Leopoldo Valiñas Coalla on Indigenous architecture in the 16th century, based on the Florentine Codex and the Primeros Memoriales. The work studies Nahua housing ...

The Templo Mayor was a dynamic construction that constantly revived a mythological passage; likewise, some of the ritual deposits found around the building could represent mythic scenes. This was the case of Offering 69, ...

In this review, Alan R. Sandstrom examines The Rain Gods’ Rebellion by James M. Taggart, which explores the cultural foundations of a Nahua insurgency in Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla, between 1977 and 1984. Through long-term ...

This review by Pedro Pitarch discusses David Lorente Fernández’s book on Nahua medicine in the Sierra de Texcoco. Drawing from an ethnographic perspective, the author explores how illness and healing serve as a language ...

Parallelism is a resource that can be found in Nahuatl evangelization texts and it is pervasive in the oral tradition of various peoples, including the indigenous people of pre-Hispanic Mexico. The aim of the paper is to ...

Esta reseña de Alejandro Véliz Ruiz Esparza analiza el libro Ascoltare un osso umano de Valeria Bellomia, que estudia dos instrumentos musicales mesoamericanos fabricados con huesos humanos y resguardados en el Museo Luigi ...

Based on new data emerging from the study of the archives of the Fiscalías del Estado de Tlaxcala, the main goal of this article is to clarify the position and function of the institution of the teccalli, as well as to ...

In the festivals of the veintenas celebrated during the solar year by the ancient Nahuas, the mythical cycles of divine beings were repeatedly represented. Among them, the Mexica tutelary god Huitzilopochtli occupied a ...

This review examines Lisa Sousa’s The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico, a foundational work on Indigenous women’s lives in colonial Mexico from 1520 to 1750. ...