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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...