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Paleografía y traducción del náhuatl al español del “Arte adivinatoria” (Códice florentino)
(2011)El artículo presenta una paleografía y traducción crítica del “Arte adivinatoria” contenido en el Códice Florentino, una obra compilada por fray Bernardino de Sahagún en el siglo XVI. A través de una revisión lingüística ... -
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Sonia Corcuera de Mancera, De pícaros y malqueridos. Huellas de su paso por la Inquisición de Zumárraga (1539-1547), México, universidad nacional autónoma de México/instituto tecnológico autónomo de México/Fondo de cultura económica, 2009, 275 p.
(2011)This review assesses Sonia Corcuera's analysis of early inquisitorial proceedings in New Spain. Using a scenic narrative structure, the author reconstructs the story of indigenous people accused of idolatry, the misconduct ... -
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Miguel león-Portilla, La tinta negra y roja: antología de poesía náhuatl, ilustraciones de Vicente rojo, Barcelona, ediciones era/el colegio na-cional/círculo de lectores/Galaxia Gutenberg, 2008
(2011)This review praises the anthology of Nahuatl poetry compiled by Miguel León-Portilla and illustrated by Vicente Rojo. The book offers insight into the Nahua worldview through poetic expressions of religious, lyrical, and ... -
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Cen: Juntamente. Compendio enciclopédico del náhuatl, México, instituto nacional de antropología e historia, 2009 [disco compacto + 167 p.]
(2011)This review explores Cen: Juntamente, a digital encyclopedic compendium of the Nahuatl language, including a dictionary, a pictographic codices dictionary, a text editor (Temoa), and a morphological analyzer (Chachalaca). ... -
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Un portal al inframundo: ofrendas de animales sepultadas al pie del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan
(2012)This article analyzes the faunal remains recovered in Offering 125, a ritual deposit found to the west of the Tlaltecuhtli monolith. Taxonomic identification of the zoological species and the areas of origin will shed ... -
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Alonso de Zorita,Relación de la Nueva España, edición, introducción, estudio y paleografía de Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, índice de José Mariano Leyva, sem-blanza y apéndice por Wiebke Arhndt, México, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2011 (Colección Cien de México).
(2012)This review highlights the significance of Alonso de Zorita’s Relación de la Nueva España as one of the last chronicles of the 16th century addressing the political, social, cultural, and religious life of New Spain. ... -
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Félix Báez-Jorge y Sergio R. Vásquez Zárate, Cempoala, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica/El Colegio de México/Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas 2011, 239 p.
(2012)Eduardo Matos Moctezuma offers a critical and praise full review of the book Cempoala, part of the “Cities” series, which provides an interdisciplinary view of the cultural, archaeological, ethnohistorical, and social ... -
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Clementina Battcock, Construcciones y significaciones de un hecho histórico: la guerra entre México-Tenochtitlan y Azcapotzalco, Alemania, Editorial Académica Española, 2011
(2012)This review analyzes Clementina Battcock’s book on the war between Mexico-Tenochtitlan and Azcapotzalco, a defining conflict of the Late Postclassic period in the Basin of Mexico. Battcock uses indigenous sources—annals, ... -
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Félix Báez-Jorge, Debates en torno a lo sagrado. Religión popular y hegemonía clerical en el México indígena, México, Universidad Veracruzana, 2011
(2012)This review discusses Félix Báez-Jorge’s book as a culmination of his extensive work on indigenous religious studies and their syncretism with Christianity. Structured in six chapters, the author addresses key concepts ... -
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Asientos para los dioses en el México de ayer y hoy
(2012)The seat is a recognized attribute of royal power in ancient Mexico, but has been little studied its role in rituals. The paper shows that several Mexica ceremonies were dedicated to representing the production of seats ... -
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José Concepción Flores Arce (Xochime’) (1930-2012)
(2012)This obituary honors José Concepción Flores Arce (Xochime’), a prominent speaker and writer of the Nahuatl language from southern Mexico City. Written by his longtime friend Rudolf van Zantwijk, the tribute recounts Xochime’s ... -
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Paleografía y traducción del décimo primer capítulo que trata de la diosa Chalchiuhtli Icue, donde se mencionan también otras diosas
(2012)The author presents progress in her paleographic and translation work of Chapter XI from Book I of the Florentine Codex, focused on the goddess Chalchiuhtli Icue. The article explores her significance in the Nahua worldview ... -
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Dialéctica de la vida y la muerte en la cosmovisión mexica (En torno a las reflexiones de Eduardo Matos Moctezuma)
(2012)This article studies the main postulates that, through out almost four decades, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma has propounded regarding the ancient Mesoamerican world-view, with an special emphasis in the Mexica worldview. The ... -
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Un cuadro real de la infiltración del hispanismo en el alma india en el llamado “Códice de Juan Bautista”
(2012)Ángel María Garibay examines the “Codex of Juan Bautista” as a record of the religious and linguistic acculturation processes during the colonial period. Through the analysis of Nahuatl texts in the codex, the author ... -
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Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna (coord.), Lenguas en el México novohispano y décimo-nónico, México, El Colegio de México, 2011
(2012)This review discusses a collective volume on linguistic diversity in 18th- and 19th-century Mexico, coordinated by Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna. The book compiles multidisciplinary studies on indigenous languages, their ... -
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Dos aplicativos en náuatl con funciones distintas
(2012)In Nahuatl, there are two applicative forms: the common form ends in -lia; the other more rare, in -ia. Traditionally regarded as ending in -ia as a variant with the same function. However, in urban Nahuatl as well as in ... -
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Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca in Cuauhquechollan (Valley of Atlixco, Mexico)
(2012)The gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca were widely worshiped throughout Mesoamerica. Based on an analysis of selected ethnohistorical accounts, this paper explores the significance of the gods’ presence in Cuauhquechollan ... -
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El “otro” y los estereotipos étnicos en el mundo nahua
(2012)For the Nahuas the ability of communication was one of the basic criteria of barbarism and limits of “humanity” projected from an entirely ethnocentric perspective. “Barbarian” and “inhuman” traits, along with ethnonyms, ... -
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Objetivos económicos y estrategia militar en el imperio azteca
(2012)The present article analyzes the control and management of commercial routes and products as a strategy for expansion of the Aztec empire; the way in which the latter deployed its efforts towards the coast, the gulf and ... -
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El tepetlacalli de la colección Leof: imagen cuatripartita del tiempo y el espacio
(2012)This article deals with a tepetlacalli or stone casket produced in the Basin of Mexico at the end of the Postclassic period. The article discusses the functions and meanings of stone caskets in Central Mexico and offers ...
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