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Altered Folios, Alternative Histories in the Florentine Codex
(2022)The histories found in the textual and pictorial narratives of the Florentine Codex (1575–77) were created by Nahua writer-artists (tlacuiloque) working with Bernardino de Sahagún. The manuscript reveals a complex process ... -
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Angela Herren Rajagopalan. 2019. Portraying the Aztec Past. The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin. Austin: University of Texas Press.
(2022)This review examines Angela Herren Rajagopalan’s Portraying the Aztec Past, a study of three pictorial codices representing the Mexica past: Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin. The author explores how Indigenous scribes ... -
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El calendario de 260 días y otros calendarios a la luz de la sabiduría de los ayöök de Oaxaca
(2022)This article explores the nature of pre-colonial calendars in Mesoamerica. Unlike other studies, data from the current utilization of the 260-and 365-day calendars among the Ayöök (Mixe) of Oaxaca are used here. In the ... -
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Cut-Paper Figures and Nahua Conceptions of the Divine: Art and Revelation in Pantheistic Religion
(2022)Nahuas of the Huasteca Veracruzana, along with their Otomí (Ñähñu) and Tepehua (Hamasipiní) neighbors, evoke sacred spirit entities through the medium of cut-paper figures, which they arrange on altars and make the subject ... -
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Eleni Kefala. 2020. The Conquered. Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity. Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
(2022)This review discusses Eleni Kefala’s book The Conquered, which compares two traumatic events—the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)—through three poetic texts composed after the conquests: ... -
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Las flores de la guerra: análisis polínico de la Ofrenda 120
(2022)The pollen analysis of offerings discovered by the Templo Mayor Project has allowed us to identify the flowers that were deposited by the Aztecs as one of the many gifts that they gave to their gods. Knowing the species ... -
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Jeremy D. Coltman y John M. D. Pohl, eds. 2020. Sorcery in Mesoamerica. Louisville: University Press of Colorado
(2022)This review explores the edited volume Sorcery in Mesoamerica, coordinated by Jeremy D. Coltman and John M. D. Pohl, which compiles ethnographic, colonial, and pre-Hispanic studies on witchcraft and sorcery in the region. ... -
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Leopoldo José Manuel Valiñas Coalla (1955-2022)
(2022)Obituary for Leopoldo José Manuel Valiñas Coalla (1955–2022), linguist, anthropologist, and professor at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia and the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas of UNAM. The text ... -
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Lori Diel. 2018. The Codex Mexicanus. A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain. Austin: University of Texas Press, and María Castañeda de la Paz and Michel Oudijk. 2019. El Códice Mexicanus, I y II. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
(2022)This review compares two recent works on the Codex Mexicanus: Lori Diel’s The Codex Mexicanus. A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain and the critical edition by María Castañeda de la Paz and Michel Oudijk (El ... -
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Michael D. Mathiowetz and Andrew D. Turner, eds. 2021. Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press
(2022)This review analyzes the volume Flower Worlds, edited by Michael D. Mathiowetz and Andrew D. Turner, which explores the presence, diversity, and significance of “flower worlds” in Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest. Building ... -
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Una nueva narrativa del contacto de nahuas y castellanos en el suroeste de Puebla, México
(2022)This paper presents a Nahuatl text from an unpublished document relating to the early years of contact between Nahuas and Spaniards in southwestern Puebla, Mexico. We provide an overview of the context of the document, the ... -
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Ritos de ascenso al poder entre los gobernantes nahuas de la cuenca de México: una propuesta de sus elementos principales
(2022)This article has three aims: to offer a proposal regarding how the accession rites carried out by the Nahua rulers of the Basin of Mexico during the Postclassic (900–1521) were structured, to identify their main shared ... -
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Las semillas: figuras elaboradas en papel recortado y vestidas para la práctica ritual nahua “el costumbre”
(2022)Descripción de las figuras que aparecen en la portada del volumen 64 de Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl. -
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Sybille de Pury-Toumi (1945-2022)
(2022)Obituary for Sybille de Pury-Toumi (1945–2022), linguist and ethnolinguist specializing in Nahuatl and Caribbean languages. The text traces her academic trajectory across three phases: her studies of classical and modern ... -
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El texto náhuatl del capítulo 20, libro II, del Códice Florentino: ensayo de paleografía y traducción
(2022)As part of the collective research project “Paleography and Translation of the Florentine Codex,” directed since 2005 by José Rubén Romero Galván and Pilar Máynez, this work contains the first publication of my Spanish ... -
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Xavier Noguez, coord. 2017. Códices. México: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
(2022)This review evaluates the book Códices, coordinated by Xavier Noguez and part of the Historia Ilustrada de México series. The volume gathers six essays by national and international experts that provide an accessible, ...
