This review analyzes Claude Stresser-Péan's work on indigenous clothing in Mexico from a historical and anthropological perspective. The book presents extensive documentation and comparative insight into textiles, garments, ...

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, ...

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 ...

This review examines Diccionario del idioma náhuatl para estudiantes by Federico B. Nagel Bielicke, published by UNAM in 2010. The bilingual náhuatl–Spanish/Spanish–náhuatl dictionary is aimed at learners and provides a ...

This review examines the book Mujer divina, mujer terrena by Miriam López Hernández, which explores female models in Mexica and Maya cultures through divine representations. The author applies an interdisciplinary approach ...

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, ...

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 ...

This review by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma explores Luis Villoro’s book Estado plural, pluralidad de culturas, emphasizing its critique of modern thought and the advocacy for a multicultural state. It discusses key topics such ...

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 ...

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 ...