"The goal of this article is to test the “hard core” theory, purposed by Alfredo López Austin, about mesoamerican cultural continuity, by the contrast between funerary practices developed in central Mexico on two different ...

This article discusses a religious movement occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century (1769) in a marginal region of New Spain, known as Sierra de Tutotepec (current state of Hidalgo). This was led by an old ...

This article explores the various historical aspects and complexities of the concept of "the common" in Oaxaca, Mexico. It analyzes the distinction between "the common" (abstract condition), "common goods" (resources), and ...

Entre los libros pictográficos amoxtli que expresan en imágenes la conquista de México-Tenochtitlan, el Codex Vaticanus A o Codex Vaticano Ríos es sin duda el códice cuya iconografía es la más rica en detalles. En dos ...

This review examines Combinar para convivir, the product of long-term collaborative ethnographic research with a Nahua community in the Huasteca region of Veracruz. Anath Ariel de Vidas employs an analogist ontological ...

This bibliographic review provides a detailed analysis of the book "Chronicle in Clay and Stone" by Jacqueline Larralde de Sáenz, which compiles nearly 2,500 archaeological pieces of Mesoamerican pre-Hispanic art, with an ...

This article intends to define the forms that the symbolic construction of authority assumed in the process of creation of the ruling elites, as well as the relationships that could have existed between the exercise of ...

This article explores the practice of decapitation in Aztec culture, highlighting its significance in mythology, agriculture, politics, and hunting. It analyzes how decapitation functioned as a crucial offering to honor ...

This essay proposes two contrasting interpretations of the figure of Nezahualcoyotl in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca. It analyzes several episodes featuring that famous character considering ...

Rudolf van Zantwijk’s study explores the structure and function of the six servant neighborhoods of Huitzilopochtli within Mexica society. Through analysis of historical sources and colonial documents, the author identifies ...