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
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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 on Jane Hill’s influential framework of a shared spiritual system based on floral metaphors, the essays examine archaeological, colonial, and contemporary expressions of this ideology, emphasizing its plural, performative, and ontologically real nature for Indigenous communities. The book includes studies on the Nahua, Wixaritari, Yoeme, and Hopi peoples, as well as material contexts from Copán, Teotihuacan, Cholula, and the Templo Mayor. The review highlights the work’s interdisciplinary richness and its commitment to Indigenous voices and decolonial perspectives Esta reseña examina el volumen Flower Worlds, editado por Michael D. Mathiowetz y Andrew D. Turner, que explora la presencia, diversidad y significado de los “mundos floridos” en Mesoamérica y el suroeste de los Estados Unidos. A partir de la propuesta de Jane Hill sobre un sistema espiritual compartido centrado en metáforas florales, los ensayos del libro analizan expresiones arqueológicas, coloniales y contemporáneas de esta ideología, subrayando su carácter plural, performativo y ontológicamente real para los pueblos indígenas. Se incluyen estudios sobre los nahuas, wixaritari, yoeme y hopis, así como análisis de contextos materiales en Copán, Teotihuacan, Cholula y el Templo Mayor. La reseña destaca la riqueza interdisciplinaria de la obra y su apuesta por integrar voces indígenas y visiones descolonizadoras
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Brittenham, Claudia. "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". Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, Vol. 64, (2022): 328-336. Edición digital en PDF. Disponible en https://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ecn/article/view/78126/69116, Disponible en Repositorio Institucional Históricas-UNAM, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12525/6367xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-texto-completo
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