Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, Vol. 70
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Reseña de: Rubén G. Mendoza y Linda Hansen, eds., Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica. Recent Findings and New Perspectives(Cham: Springer, 2024). 512 pp.
(2025)This review examines the Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica, edited by Rubén G. Mendoza and Linda Hansen, which offers an updated synthesis on ritual human sacrifice in Mesoamerican contexts. Drawing on recent archaeological ... -
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Reseña de: Kelly McDonough, Indigenous Science and Technology. Nahuas and the World Around Them(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2024). 328 pp.
(2025)In this review, Barbara E. Mundy examines Indigenous Science and Technology by Kelly McDonough, who reclaims Nahua knowledge as legitimate science through analysis of colonial sources written in Nahuatl. The author addresses ... -
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Reseña de: Berenice Alcántara Rojas, Mario Alberto Sánchez Aguilera y Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi, coords., Vestigios manuscritos de una nueva cristiandad (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas/Estampa Artes Gráficas, 2022). 328 pp.
(2025)This review explores the edited volume Vestigios manuscritos de una nueva cristiandad, which brings together studies of manuscripts produced by Indigenous peoples in the 16th and 17th centuries, reinterpreting Christianity ... -
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El miedo a las “apariciones nocturnas” de Tezcatlipoca Cuitlapanton, cintanaton, centlapachton
(2025)In Book v of the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España [General History of the Things of New Spain] “ghosts” or “illusions” are described as nocturnal apparitions that provoked fear among the ancient Nahuas. According ... -
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Los nombres personales jeroglíficos en el Mapa de las tierras de Oztoticpac y el desciframiento de la escritura náhuatl
(2025)In the Texcocan Oztoticpac Lands Map, produced ca. 1540-1596, numerous spellings in Nahuatl hieroglyphic writing can be observed, most of which are not accompanied by glosses in Latin script. The hieroglyphs in Sections A ... -
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Reseña de: Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra. A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021). 259 pp.
(2025)This review evaluates Codex Sierra, edited and translated by Kevin Terraciano. The book offers a critical edition and annotated translation of a colonial document written in Nahuatl and Mixtec, which records the accounts ... -
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Kwawitlêwa en los Primeros memoriales
(2025)The aim of this article is to exhibit a proposed translation of a text written in Classical Nahuatl, hereinafter referred to asKwawitlêwa, which forms part of the so-called Primeros memoriales, a 16th-century historic ... -
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Epistemicidad y género discursivo Estudio contrastivo de un fragmento de un xiuhtlapōhualli y un tēmachtīliztla’tōlli
(2025)"In order to determine whether there are linguistic differences that could serve as generic markers, this study compares two colonial Nahuatl texts of religious content: Domingo Chimalpain Cuauhtlehuanitzin “Primera ... -
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L’art rhétorique des élites nahuas dans leurs lettres au roi pour la défense de la seigneurie en Nouvelle-Espagne au xvie siècle
(2025)The Spaniards relied on the caciques to govern New Spain. The monarchy defended their author-ity, while reducing their prerogatives. To defend their power, which they felt was under threat, the caciques wrote numerous ... -
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Los injertos de árboles frutales europeos y sus cantidades: Detalle del Mapa de las tierras de Oztoticpac
(2025)"This article examines a detail from the Map of the Lands of Oztoticpac, a 16th-century document from Texcoco preserved in the Library of Congress, USA. It focuses on lists of European fruit tree grafts (pomegranates, ... -
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“¡Canten, hermanos menores míos!”La memoria tlaxcalteca de la Conquista a través de la performance en el cantar Tlaxcaltecayotl
(2025)"Throughout the 16th century, the Tlaxcaltecs produced a rich corpus of legal documents, ceremonies, and paintings in which they exalted their role as Christianized allied conquerors and reinforced a ... -
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Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, volumen 70
(2025)Volume 70 of Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl features five scholarly articles and one paleographic translation focused on the analysis of Nahuatl-language texts, using both alphabetic and hieroglyphic writing systems. Topics ...
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