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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Grandes hallazgos de la arqueología, Editorial Tusquests, México, 2013
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014)
This review by Sara Ladrón de Guevara explores Eduardo Matos Moctezuma’s book Grandes hallazgos de la arqueología, which examines five monumental tombs from ancient civilizations: Egypt, China, Monte Albán, Palenque, and ...
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Los cantos religiosos de los antiguos mexicanos [segunda parte, cantos 11 a 20]
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014)
This is the second part of Eduard Seler’s study on Nahua religious chants, focusing on chants 11 through 20 preserved in the manuscript by Juan Bautista Pomar. Seler offers a philological analysis and German translation ...
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La adivinación por medio del maíz
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014)
All peoples of the world have tried, through various techniques which can be described as magical, predict the future, determine the cause of misfortunes or illness, as well as locate missing persons or objects. The ...
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Ilhuitl (día, parte diurna, veintena) y sus divisiones
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015)
This article aims to see the different meanings that can take the word ilhuitl in relation with various contexts of use. Also, to determine how the Nahuatl language, with various resources, allows us to know how to select ...
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Pete Sigal, The Flower and the Scorpion. Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture, Durham, north Carolina, Duke University Press, 2011 (Serie Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, nations)
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013)
This review provides a critical assessment of Pete Sigal’s book, which explores sexuality and ritual in Postclassic Nahua culture. The work draws from Nahuatl-language sources and colonial records, proposing an alternative ...
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Mark Z. Christensen, Nahua and Maya Catholicisms. Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan, Stanford, California, Stanford University Press and Berkeley, California, The Academy of American Fran-ciscan History, 2013
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014)
This review analyzes Mark Z. Christensen’s work, which compares colonial Christianity among Nahua and Maya communities through religious texts in native languages. Christensen argues that colonial Catholicism was not ...
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La variedad misionera del náhuatl en el Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana de fray Alonso de Molina (1555-1571)
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013)
The present contribution reviews the main characteristic features that define the specific missionary nahuatl variety reflected in Alonso de Molina’s Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana de 15551571
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Sara Ladrón de Guevara et al., Culturas del Golfo, Milán, Instituto nacional de Antropología e Historia/Jacabook, 2012
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013)
This review highlights the book Culturas del Golfo as a fundamental synthesis of the archaeology of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Coordinated by Sara Ladrón de Guevara, the volume compiles contributions from leading scholars ...
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Alfredo López Austin, El conejo en la cara de la luna, México, Editorial Era/Instituto nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2012
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013)
This review evaluates El conejo en la cara de la luna, a collection of eighteen essays on ancient and contemporary Mesoamerican mythology written by Alfredo López Austin. Beginning with a lunar myth, the book addresses ...
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Dos parcialidades étnicas en Azcapotzalco: Mexicapan y Tepanecapan
(Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013)
This study consists of an overview of Azcapotzalco’s history from the 13th till the second half of the 16th century. Issues that will be analyzed are its foundation, its internal organization, the origin of the its two ...