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Tula Xicocotitlan: historia y arqueología
(2008)This article provides a comprehensive overview of Tula Xicocotitlan, focusing on both archaeological findings and historical sources used to reconstruct its past. León-Portilla explores Tula’s role as a political, religious, ... -
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El arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana de fray Alonso de Molina: morfología y composición
(2008)This article examines Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana (1571) by Fray Alonso de Molina, focusing on the morphological and compositional aspects of Nahuatl described in the work. The author explores how Molina ... -
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El trono del águila y el jaguar. Una revisión a la figura de Moctezuma II
(2008)This article offers a critical analysis of Moctezuma II, the last fully sovereign huey tlatoani of the Mexica Empire before the arrival of the Spaniards. Isabel Bueno Bravo reviews the various historical and literary ... -
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Los cantos zapotecos de Villa Alta: dos géneros rituales indígenas y sus correspondencias con los Cantares mexicanos
(2008)This article analyzes two genres of Zapotec ritual chants documented in 17th-century colonial records from Villa Alta, Oaxaca. David Tavárez compares these chants with the Cantares mexicanos, revealing a rich continuity ... -
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Tecnología alimentaria prehispánica
(2008)This article explores the food technologies developed by ancient Mesoamerican cultures, from hunting and gathering to the invention of nixtamalization. It highlights the key role of women in agricultural innovation, plant ... -
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Sobre el origen del lenguaje y la diversidad lingüística: la Babel de México
(2008)This article reflects on the origins of language and linguistic diversity in the Mexican context, offering a critical perspective on Eurocentric interpretations. Pilar Máynez discusses how the multiplicity of Indigenous ... -
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La nominación náhuatl de "cerdo": un caso de no innovación léxica en la asimilación lingüística y cultural de nuevas realidades
(2008)This article analyzes the phenomenon of lexical non-innovation in Nahuatl through the case of the word used to designate the "pig", an animal introduced after the Spanish conquest. The author argues that instead of coining ... -
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Los difrasismos, un rasgo del lenguaje ritual
(2008)This article examines the use of difrasismos in Nahuatl as a distinctive feature of Mesoamerican ritual language. Difrasismos—binary constructions of coordinated nouns such as "water and fire"—are used to express abstract, ... -
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Techahchan huel nelli motemaquixtiz in tonahuatlahtol intla ticnequih macahmo polihui. Nitetlatlalhuiz
(2008)This bilingual (Náhuatl–Spanish) text is a linguistic autobiography in which David Silva Galeana recounts his personal experience with the Náhuatl language in his community of Tlacotenco, Milpa Alta. He reflects on the ... -
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La morfología del causativo, aplicativo y frecuentativo del náhuatl en Tlacotenco, Milpa Alta, D. F.
(2008)This article examines verbal morphology in the Nahuatl spoken in Santa Ana Tlacotenco, Milpa Alta, Mexico City, focusing on the causative, applicative, and frequentative morphemes. The author describes how these elements ... -
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Chimalpahin, don Carlos María de Bustamante and The Conquest of Mexico as cause for Mexican nationalism
(2008)This article explores how the Indigenous chronicler Chimalpahin and 19th-century historian Carlos María de Bustamante interpreted the Conquest of Mexico and how these interpretations contributed to the shaping of Mexican ... -
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Celebrating the rise of a new sun: the Tlaxcalans conquer Jerusalem in 1539
(2008)This article explores a ceremony performed by the Tlaxcalans in 1539, in which they symbolically enacted the conquest of Jerusalem as part of a Christian celebration. Viviana Díaz Balsera argues that this event served as ... -
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La Relación geográfica de Cholula o la mirada realista de un investigador sobre el mundo indígena
(2009)This article analyzes the Relación Geográfica de Cholula, a document created in the 16th century as part of the Spanish Crown’s project to gather geographic and historical data. Bernard Grunberg explores how this report ... -
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Reseña de: Guy Stresser-Péan, Un viaje a la Huasteca con Guy Stresser-Péan, prólogo de Miguel León-Portilla e introducción de Guilhem Olivier, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008
(2008)This review by Miguel León-Portilla presents Un viaje a la Huasteca con Guy Stresser-Péan as a testimony of over six decades of ethnological, archaeological, and ethnohistorical work in the Huasteca region. The volume ... -
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Reseña de: Alessandro Lupo, Leonardo López Luján y Luisa Migliorati, Gli aztechi tra passato e presente, grandezza e vitalitá di una civiltá mexicana, Roma, Editorial Carocci, 2006, 218 p.
(2008)Eduardo Matos Moctezuma reviews the book Gli aztechi tra passato e presente, which offers a comprehensive view of Mexica civilization, from its pre-Hispanic history to its modern legacy. Published in Italian, the work is ... -
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Reseña de: María Rodríguez-Shadow (coord.), Las mujeres en Mesoamérica prehispánica, Toluca, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2007, 280 p.
(2008)This review offers a critical analysis of the book Las mujeres en Mesoamérica prehispánica, coordinated by María Rodríguez-Shadow. The volume, the result of two academic symposia, features eleven authors from various ... -
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La construcción socio-histórica del paisaje fundacional en las migraciones mesoamericanas
(2009)This article analyzes how various Mesoamerican societies symbolically constructed the landscapes associated with their foundational migrations. The author argues that these narratives not only describe geographic paths but ... -
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El Códice Santa Cruz Tlamapa 1. Estudio Histórico, físico y de contenido
(2009)This article provides a comprehensive study of the Codex Santa Cruz Tlamapa 1, a pictorial-colonial manuscript from the Chalco region. The author examines its historical context, physical features, and content, which focus ... -
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La forma del tiempo y las voces del calendario
(2009)This article explores Mesoamerican conceptions of time by analyzing Indigenous calendars, focusing on the voices that name days and their symbolic implications. Ana Guadalupe Díaz Álvarez examines how the calendrical system ... -
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La cronología de la Tira de la peregrinación
(2009)This article examines the chronological challenges of the codex known as Tira de la peregrinación or Codex Boturini, which depicts the Mexica migration from Aztlán to the Colhuacan region. Comparing pictographic sources ...
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