Repositorio Institucional Historicas-UNAM: Recent submissions
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Ben Leeming. 2022. Aztec Antichrist. Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico. Louisville: University Press of Colorado. xxxi + 281 pp.
(2025)This review analyzes Ben Leeming’s Aztec Antichrist, which focuses on two 16th-century religious plays in Nahuatl composed by Fabián de Aquino. Through philological, historical, and theatrical analysis of these neixcuitilli, ... -
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Leonardo López Luján y Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, coords. 2022. Los animales y el recinto sagrado de Tenochtitlan. México: El Colegio Nacional/Harvard University. 818 pp.
(2025)This review examines the collective volume Los animales y el recinto sagrado de Tenochtitlan, edited by Leonardo López Luján and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, which compiles 34 contributions from an international colloquium and ... -
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David Stuart. 2021. King and Cosmos. An Interpretation of the Aztec Calendar Stone.San Francisco: Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, 158 pp.
(2025)This review examines David Stuart’s King and Cosmos, an innovative interpretation of the Aztec Calendar Stone that proposes reading it as a hieroglyphic design in which writing and iconography converge. Stuart argues that ... -
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Eloise Quiñones Keber (1941-2023)
(2025)Obituary for art historian Eloise Quiñones Keber (1941–2023), emeritus professor at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Written by one of her former students, the text traces her ... -
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La pillahtolli y la macehuallahtolli: Formas nahuas de hablar registradas en los Primeros memoriales
(2025)"In the Primeros memoriales by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his collaborators there is a group of brief texts on the ways that the nahua allegedly used to speak. These texts are particularly defined by being the speech ... -
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Rafael Tena, ed. y estudio introductorio. 2021. Tira de la Peregrinación. México: Secretaría de Cultura/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. 36 pp. + Facsímil + 4 mapas.
(2025)This review analyzes the facsimile edition and introductory study by Rafael Tena on the Tira de la Peregrinación (Codex Boturini), published by INAH in 2021. The volume includes an analysis of the codex’s 22 folios, an ... -
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Johannes Neurath. 2023. Las religiones indígenas de Mesoamérica. Historia, ritos y transformaciones.Buenos Aires: Sb Editorial. 196 pp.
(2025)This review examines Johannes Neurath’s Las religiones indígenas de Mesoamérica, a critical work that questions the very notion of Mesoamerica as a colonial construct and offers a decolonial reinterpretation of Indigenous ... -
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Frances F. Berdan. 2021. The Aztecs. Londres: Reaktion Books Ltd. 208 pp.
(2025)This review analyzes The Aztecs by Frances F. Berdan, a current and accessible synthesis of Mexica civilization. Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and documentary sources, the author addresses topics such as the ... -
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La Cihuacóatl de Calixtlahuaca Expresión de poder y religiosidad en el valle de Toluca
(2025)"This article focuses on the iconographic study of a sculptural piece from the archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca, State of Mexico, which is associated with the religious numen known as Cihua-coatl, whose main attributes ... -
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Tlacotli Nuevos apuntes para la definición de una categoría nahua
(2025)"This article examines the tlacotli based on the analysis of documentary sources of the 16th and 17th centuries. Their profile is presented: the ways in which indigenous people acquired that condition; their rights and ... -
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El océano, la guerra y el pulque como conceptos interrelacionados en el lenguaje simbólico de los nahuas
(2025)"This study aims to explore the metaphorical meanings of three interrelated concepts in colonial sources in Nahuatl language: ocean, war, and pulque. Based on various metaphors built on these concepts in colonial texts, ... -
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Cajete globular tipo “Polícroma mate” o “Cristina” (Cholula, ca. 830-1150). Museo de sitio de Cholula. Cerámica con engobe, técnica de pintado pre-cocción.
(2025)Descripción de la ilustración que aparece en la portada del volumen 69 de Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl: Cajete globular tipo “Polícroma mate” o “Cristina” -
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La cerámica polícroma de Cholula y sus antecedentes mayas
(2025)"The article discusses the hypothesis put forth by John Paddock and Michael Lind that Cholula polychrome pottery might be derived, with modifications, from Maya ceramic techniques. One of the aims of this study is to explore ... -
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Imágenes de fertilidad en el arte rupestre del norte de Morelos
(2025)In northern Morelos, there are numerous sites with rock art dispersed among the mountains and ravines which feature a recurring set of images. These include a crescent moon with a zoomorphic figure, such as a deer, a canine, ... -
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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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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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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 ...
