Estudios Del México Antiguo
Resumen del Libro
Informative series of public lectures by noted scholars, including Barba de Piña Chans exploration of the grandmother figure in Quiche culture, particularly as illustrated in the Popol Vuh and some Olmec-Maya bas reliefs at Izapa, which may take the concept back as far as 300 BC, Folans survey of excavations at Calakmul, Campeche, a site with impressive and telling classic period tombs, Piña Chans revisionist study of one of the Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala, murals which he believes represent ritual sacrifice linked with Quetzalcoatl and, therefore, the death and rebirth of Venus, Macías Goytias revelations about the cultural life highlighted by excavations at Huandacareo in the basin of Cuitzeo, Michoacan, Olivé Negretes exploration of the elusive meaning of Aztlan, Valle de Revueltas summary of her research on Tepetlaoztoc, part of Acolhuacan, Heydens considerations regarding the fate of 16th-century writings of Sahagún and Durán, and Pérez-Rochas summary of her work on colonial agrarian issues in the jurisdiction of Tacuba –Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
