"A pesar de que los autores más diversos han reconocido la enorme importancia de la religión en la vida social mesoamericana, resulta sorprendente ver cómo se carece de estudios que aborden la problemática de aquellos ...

"La presente obra constituye una síntesis de las concepciones p'urhépecha de la humanidad que debieron existir en las épocas prehispánica y colonial. Lejos de una visión esencialista, el autor cuestiona la preeminencia de ...

"Este libro reúne dos ensayos que proponen y exploran nuevas maneras de comprender la historia de nuestro continente a partir de dos aspectos clave: el cambio cultural y las relaciones interétnicas. Con una perspectiva de ...

This review by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma provides a thorough analysis of Óscar Moisés Torres Montúfar’s book on the production, circulation, and consumption of gold among the Mexica. The review highlights the systematic ...

From the community of Coyoacán come two large-format sculptures that depict the deity Quetzalcoatl in his Feathered Serpent avocation. The two sculptures, carved in a high quality basalt, date from the Late Postclassic ...

Ignacio Silva Cruz presents the paleographic transcription and translation of Chapter 21 from Book VI of the Florentine Codex, focused on rituals related to the female life cycle, particularly pregnancy and childbirth in ...

The conquest of Mexico is generally viewed as a secular sequence of events but these alone did not determine its timing. Several temporal cycles profoundly affected the timing and consequences of both these battles and ...

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, ...

In this study we try to define what the god Cipak represented for the Huastecs and the important part he had in their lives. We will analyze as well the penetration of Quetzalcoatl at various archaeological sites in the ...

In this review, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma analyzes Leonardo López Luján’s book on Captain Guillermo Dupaix and his 1794 archaeological album. The reviewed work combines a critical edition of an illustrated manuscript with a ...