This review examines Teatro sagrado by Miguel Sabido, a book devoted to sacred popular performances in Mexico known as “coloquios.” The author explores their Mesoamerican roots, colonial evangelization links, and survival ...

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 ...

Mercedes Montes de Oca’s work thoroughly examines difrasismos—dual expressions characteristic of the Nahuatl language—from the 16th and 17th centuries. Using a methodology that blends historical linguistics, cognitive ...

This review examines the Spanish edition of Michel Graulich’s book on Motecuhzoma II, originally published in French in 1994. The book offers an innovative perspective by interweaving indigenous and Spanish sources with a ...

In this article I study the symbolisms of fertility, procreation and abundance attributed to monkey among ancient Nahuas, which were projected toward the farm and human spheres. In an outstanding way, the figure of monkey ...

This paper describes the Nahua words that named Christian categories on Christ’s sacrifice in four Nahua manuscripts of possible Franciscan filiation. The main objective is to analyze those words, which by various acculturation ...

This essay honors Ángel María Garibay and Miguel León-Portilla for their pioneering work in recovering, studying, and promoting Indigenous languages, especially Nahuatl, through the journal Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl. ...

In this commemorative article, the editors of Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl reflect on the central role of linguistics and philology in the journal's development since its founding in 1959. The text surveys major contributions ...

This article reviews the main works on Nahua art published in the journal Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl from its first issue in 1959 to volume 50 in 2015. Contributions by scholars such as Justino Fernández, Samuel Martí, ...

In this article I propose a reading of Sahagún’s Coloquiosy Psalmodia Christiana as rhetorical experiments to translate particular concepts and doctrinal elements to a new context of epistemological domination. I will ...