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 ...

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 ...

We know the name of an average of 35 Aztec dignitaries, as well as their role in the war, justice and the embassies. The article wants to show that, as this society did not provide a separation between politics and religion, ...

The tonalpohualliis a complex nahua cosmological technology for the count of time. It has been defined as a divinatory system operating complementarily with a true, 18-month calendar. The proposal of this article is to ...

This paper contributes with both historical analysis and historiographical progress on one of the most complex actors within the Conquest and the consolidation of the first Castilian-controlled native governments at ...

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 ...

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 ...