This review examines Johannes Neurath’s Las religiones indígenas de Mesoamérica, a critical work that questions the very notion of Mesoamerica as a colonial construct and offers a decolonial reinterpretation of Indigenous ...

"This article focuses on the iconographic study of a sculptural piece from the archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca, State of Mexico, which is associated with the religious numen known as Cihua-coatl, whose main attributes ...

"Through a review of the Mesoamerican ethnographic literature and the author’s own field data, this article proposes a characterization of indigenous “other worlds” or “worlds of otherness”, highlighting certain ontological ...

The calpulli has been a subject of intense discussion among researchers focusing on ancient Mexico. On the one hand we find those who assume it is a kinship organization, while on the other, there are those who regard it ...

Mauricio Swadesh presents an overview of Mesoamerica’s linguistic richness, identifying approximately eighty Indigenous languages belonging to different language families. The author analyzes their geographical distribution, ...

One of the main discussions regarding Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl in Mesoamerican history has focused on the role he played in ruler succession at Tula. Paul Kirchhoff and Wigberto Jiménez Moreno began this historical ...

The exegesis of the Nahuas of Texcoco regarding the concept of personhood reveals how inappropriate it is to speak of a finite number of autonomous souls, isolated and countable in a fixed, conclusive, and unambiguous way. ...

In this critical review, Richard E. Blanton evaluates Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica, an edited volume by Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco. The book explores multiple forms of interaction among ...

This review by Karl A. Taube examines the volume Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice, edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrew K. Scherer. The work brings together interdisciplinary studies on the ...

In the Sierra de Texcoco, bread is the principal food offering in the Day of the Dead altars. When this ritual concludes, however, bread represents a way of communication with the dead throughout the annual cycle, when ...