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El vaso de un rey de Tikal en una colección privada de Guatemala
(2025)"The hieroglyphic texts carved and painted on numerous vessels, bowls, and plates made during the Classic period are crucial to our understanding of the ancient Maya civilization. Since their dedicatory clauses were ... -
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La fundación de la Ciudad de México. 1325. Su conmemoración
(2025)This article examines the mythical and historical founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 1325 by the Mexicas, its rise as the capital of a vast Mesoamerican empire, and its subsequent consolidation as a political center during ... -
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Los Popolocas
(1905)This ethnographic study, based on an expedition carried out between 1904 and 1905, presents an in-depth investigation into the Popoloca Indians, an indigenous group previously scarcely documented. The author addresses the ... -
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In cueitl in huipilli: “La falda, la camisa”: Las mujeres en la sociedad mexica
(2025)This chapter, "In cueitl in huipilli: 'The Skirt, the Blouse'. Women in Mexica Society," authored by Miguel Pastrana Flores, provides a concise overview of the main characteristics of various groups of women in Mexica ... -
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Mesoamérica
(2024)This chapter, authored by Clementina Battcock and José Rubén Romero Galván, explores the Mesoamerican world as the ontological substratum of Mexico, presenting it as dynamic and unfinished knowledge, constantly renewed by ... -
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Reinas consortes del Clásico: un estudio a través de Ix Winaakhaab Ajaw en las inscripciones de Piedras Negras
(2025)"In Classic Maya hieroglyphic texts, elite women are referred to as mothers, wives, and daughters, indicating that the most significant role they played in society was that of royal consorts. Both texts and iconography ... -
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El destino del guerrero vencido. Los casos de Tlacahuepan, Tlahuicole, Motecuhzoma y Cuauhtémoc
(2025)This essay analyzes the fate of captured warriors in Nahua tradition, focusing on the cases of Tlacahuepan, Tlahuicole, Motecuhzoma, and Cuauhtémoc. It explores the profound relevance of ritual sacrifice for captives in ... -
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Les origines préclassiques des funéraires aztèques
(2025)"The goal of this article is to test the “hard core” theory, purposed by Alfredo López Austin, about mesoamerican cultural continuity, by the contrast between funerary practices developed in central Mexico on two different ... -
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Las vertientes de lo común en Oaxaca. Algunas apreciaciones históricas
(2025)This article explores the various historical aspects and complexities of the concept of "the common" in Oaxaca, Mexico. It analyzes the distinction between "the common" (abstract condition), "common goods" (resources), and ... -
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Volumen 71
(2026)"Volume 71 of Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl is contextualized by the 700th anniversary of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 2025, an event that prompts a critical reflection on the construction of Mexican nationalism. ... -
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Pectoral con personaje que muestra elementos iconográficos de Mixcóatl y Tezcatlipoca: 13.5 × 11 × 1.2 cm. Piedra verde, cultura mexica, Postclásico Tardío (1469-1481), Museo del Templo Mayor, Inv. 10-162942, Ciudad de México. Dibujo de Ángel González López
(2026)This paper describes a green stone pectoral discovered in April 1978 in Cista 5 (Chamber 1) of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, beneath the Coyolxauhqui monolith. The piece, dated to the Late Postclassic period (1469-1481), ... -
Reseña
Reseña de: Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, coord., Códices de México(México: Secretaría de Cultura/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Gobierno del Estado de México, 2021). 245 pp.
(2026)This review analyzes the book "Códices de México" (2021), coordinated by Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, which originated from an exhibition of 44 Mesoamerican pictographic manuscripts at the National Museum of Anthropology in ... -
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El Códice mixto de Cuauhtla (Huautla, Hidalgo) Paleografía y traducción de una tasación en lengua náhuatl fechada en 1558
(2026)"What I have called the Mixed Codex of Cuauhtla is a Nahuatl appraisal dated 1558, in favor of Francisco de la Cueva, governor of the town of Cuauhtla (corresponding to the current municipality of Huautla, Hidalgo), located ... -
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Reseña de: El libro de los testamentos de Culhuacán. Vida y muerte entre los nahuas del México central, siglo xvi. Transcripción del náhuatl, traducciones al español e inglés y edición de Miguel León-Portilla y Sarah Cline, con la colaboración de Juan Carlos Torres López (México: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2023). 464 pp.
(2026)This bibliographic review analyzes "El libro de los testamentos de Culhuacán. Vida y muerte entre los nahuas del México central, siglo xvi" (The Book of Testaments of Culhuacán. Life and Death Among the Nahuas of Central ... -
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Reseña de: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Descendants of Aztec Pictography. The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020). 244 pp.
(2026)This document is a critical review of Elizabeth Hill Boone's book Descendants of Aztec Pictography. The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (2020). The review highlights Boone's career in studying pre-Hispanic ... -
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Reseña de: Antonio Reyes Valdez, Gabriela García Salido y Elizabeth Soto Gurrola, Historias de creación y destrucción. Cosmología o’dam a través del sapook, un género discursivo (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2022). 243 pp.
(2026)This review analyzes the book "Historias de creación y destrucción. Cosmología o’dam a través del sapook, un género discursivo" by Antonio Reyes Valdez, Gabriela García Salido, and Elizabeth Soto Gurrola. The work focuses ... -
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Reseña de: Julia Madajczak, Katarzyna Granicka, Szymon Gruda, Monika Jaglarz and José Luis de Rojas, Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library. A Lost Manuscript (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021). 356 pp.
(2026)This review discusses a groundbreaking study of previously unpublished 16th-century Nahuatl census fragments from the Marquesado del Valle, currently housed in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, Poland. The work offers a ... -
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Reseña de: Alessandro Questa Rebolledo, Montañas que danzan. Laboratorios maseual para el mantenimiento del mundo(Buenos Aires: Paradigma Inicial, 2023). 210 pp.
(2026)This review analyzes Alessandro Questa Rebolledo's book "Montañas que danzan. Laboratorios maseual para el mantenimiento del mundo" (Mountains that dance. Maseual laboratories for world maintenance). The work departs from ... -
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Funeraria nahua, una primera aproximación: el ritual por derecho propio
(2026)"Since the inception of historical-anthropological disciplines, the subject of conceptions of death has always been one of the most relevant in Mesoamerica. However, a brief review of the literature shows an almost total ... -
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Cultural principles of children’s socialization among Nahuas of Tlaxcala
(2026)"The aim of this study is to examine the cultural principles that guide the socialization of bilingual children (Nahuatl-Spanish) from San Isidro Buensuceso, Tlaxcala. Four principles are described: the primacy of adult ...
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