In this critical review, Richard E. Blanton evaluates Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica, an edited volume by Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco. The book explores multiple forms of interaction among ...

The teponaztles of San Juan Atzingo (community in the municipality of Ocuilan, Estado de México), known colloquially as “the original” and “the replica,” are one of the most important cultural and identity gears for Tlahuica ...

This review by Manuel A. Hermann Lejarazu examines Lidia E. Gómez García’s work on Nahua annals written in the city of Puebla during the 17th and 18th centuries. The book studies indigenous manuscripts written in Nahuatl ...

This work aims to present two unpublished fragments in Nahuatl of two lectionaries, a type of liturgical book quite widespread and used by the Franciscan evangelizing friars during the six­teenth century in New Spain,in ...

This review examines the book by Andrea Rodríguez Figueroa and Leopoldo Valiñas Coalla on Indigenous architecture in the 16th century, based on the Florentine Codex and the Primeros Memoriales. The work studies Nahua housing ...

The Templo Mayor was a dynamic construction that constantly revived a mythological passage; likewise, some of the ritual deposits found around the building could represent mythic scenes. This was the case of Offering 69, ...

In this review, Alan R. Sandstrom examines The Rain Gods’ Rebellion by James M. Taggart, which explores the cultural foundations of a Nahua insurgency in Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla, between 1977 and 1984. Through long-term ...

This review by Pedro Pitarch discusses David Lorente Fernández’s book on Nahua medicine in the Sierra de Texcoco. Drawing from an ethnographic perspective, the author explores how illness and healing serve as a language ...

Parallelism is a resource that can be found in Nahuatl evangelization texts and it is pervasive in the oral tradition of various peoples, including the indigenous people of pre-Hispanic Mexico. The aim of the paper is to ...

Esta reseña de Alejandro Véliz Ruiz Esparza analiza el libro Ascoltare un osso umano de Valeria Bellomia, que estudia dos instrumentos musicales mesoamericanos fabricados con huesos humanos y resguardados en el Museo Luigi ...