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Alan R. Sandstrom Y Pamela Effrein Sandstrom, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain. Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico’s Huasteca Veracruzana. Ilustraciones De Michael K. Aakhus, Ana Laura Ávila-Myers Y Michael A. Sandstrom (Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2022). 478 Pp
(2026)This review analyzes "Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain. Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico’s Huasteca Veracruzana" by Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom. The book extensively documents Nahua ritual journeys and ... -
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Stan Declercq, Comer al otro. Canibalismo, guerra y ritualidad entre los antiguos nahuas (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia/Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, 2024). 424 pp
(2026)This review analyzes Stan Declercq's book, "Comer al otro. Canibalismo, guerra y ritualidad entre los antiguos nahuas" (Eating the Other: Cannibalism, War, and Ritual Among the Ancient Nahuas), which reinterprets anthropophagy ... -
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Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi, Nahuas que saben latín. Producción intelectual indígena en el Colegio de Tlatelolco (1546-1572), vol. 11 (Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Chile; Sevilla: Enredars-Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 2025). 351pp. https://doi.org/10.32457/h31m0355.
(2026)This review examines Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi's book "Nahuas que saben latín. Producción intelectual indígena en el Colegio de Tlatelolco (1546-1572)". The book analyzes the intellectual production of Nahua scholars during ... -
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Miguel Pastrana Flores, Tula y los toltecas en la historiografía mexicana del siglo XVIII al xxi (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2023). 166 pp.
(2026)This document is a review of Miguel Pastrana Flores's book "Tula y los toltecas en la historiografía mexicana del siglo xviii al xxi". The book analyzes how the city of Tula, or Tollan Xicocotitlan, was interpreted and ... -
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Konrad Theodor Preuss, La expedición al Nayarit. Registro de textos y observaciones entre los indígenas de México. La religión de los coras a través de sus textos. Edición de Margarita Valdovinos. 3 vols. (México: Siglo XXI/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2020)
(2026)This review discusses the critical Spanish edition of Konrad Theodor Preuss's fundamental work, La expedición al Nayarit (The Nayarit Expedition), originally published in German in 1912. Preuss's work extensively documents ... -
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Andrew Laird, Aztec Latin. Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico (Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2024). 465 pp
(2026)This document is a review of Andrew Laird's book "Aztec Latin. Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (2024), written by Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi. The review analyzes Laird's proposal to explore ... -
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De transgresores a dioses: o de cómo algunos tlatlacotin llegaban a la piedra sacrificial
(2026)"This article studies the tlacotli bearing the collar of servitude —commonly referred to as a slaveby Spanish chroniclers— through an analysis of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century documentary sources. It explores the ... -
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El Cristo del mesías del santo Egipto
(2026)"This article examines two fragments of eiteenth-century memoirs preserved in the archives of the fiscalía of San Simón Tlatlauhquitepec, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Dated 1769 and 1770, these manu-scripts were written in Nahuatl, ... -
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Those who Understood with their Hearts the Ancient Ones’ Accounts: Why Tezozomoc Would Not Want to Be Considered the Author of the Crónica Mexicana
(2026)"This article argues that Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc should not be considered the author of the Crónica mexicana because he would not have wanted to be thought of as such. A careful study of the earliest known copy of the ... -
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Los padecimientos del cuello según el Códice Florentino
(2026)"The second paragraph of Chapter 27, Book 11, of the Florentine Codex provides a series of recommendations to treat ailments of the human neck. In order to understand the meaning of each ... -
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La travesía al mundo solar o de cómo convertirse en cristiano: Repensando la noción nahua de persona
(2026)Drawing on ethnographic research among the Nahua of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, this article examines the human life cycle in order to rethink the classical model of soul entities and propose an alternative framework for ... -
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Un conjunto documental nahua de 1574: Nuevas miradas desde la historia, la archivística y la filología
(2026)"The article analyses a documentary set consisting of two memorials drafted in March 1574 by the Indigenous town council of San Juan Tenochtitlan and accompanied by an introductory letter written by the Franciscan friar ... -
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Miguel León Portilla, editor de Estudios De Cultura Náhuatl: A cien años de su nacimiento
(2026)This tribute celebrates the centenary of Miguel León-Portilla's birth, highlighting his intellectual legacy through his role as co-founder and editor of Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl. Founded in 1959 with Ángel María Garibay, ... -
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Memorial de las autoridades de México-Tenochtitlan (1574)
(2026)This study analyzes a fragment from one of two memorials sent by the indigenous authorities of Mexico-Tenochtitlan's cabildo to Philip II and the Council of the Indies in 1574. The document highlights the early and high ... -
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Volumen 72
(2026)This presentation for volume 72 of Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl pays tribute to the centenary of Miguel León-Portilla's birth, founder and editor of the journal. The introduction outlines the contributions included in this ... -
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Miguel León-Portilla: Compendio bibliohemerográfico 1954-2026
(2026)This biblio-hemerographic compendium offers a comprehensive overview of Dr. Miguel León-Portilla's academic work from 1954 to 2026. It gathers books, chapters, articles, and journalistic notes covering multiple disciplines ... -
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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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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 ...





















