We consider two unrelated traditions of hieroglyphic writing, Maya and Egyptian, to discuss
distinctive features of such mixed, logo-phonetic writing systems. Hieroglyphic scripts are …

The “Codex Mendoza” is one of the earliest, most detailed, and most important postconquest
accounts of pre-Hispanic Aztec life. Nahuas and Spaniards manufactured the codex through …

This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of which began in the 1540s. One
involved the relations of Europeans and Native Americans in an Oaxacan town (in New …

As scientific objects, mummies were born of Europe's encounter with two “ancient” bodily
knowledges. The first is well known: the embalmed Egyptian dead who were ground into a …

La presencia y distribución de los hablantes de la lengua maya yucateka en la Península de
Yucatán del clásico temprano hasta el momento de contacto con los españoles son …

Este libro ofrece una introducción general a las religiones de Mesoamérica. No persigue un
fin enciclopedista, sino demostrar que, aun en la época de la hiperespecialización …

The years I worked on the thesis, on which this book is based, have felt like an odessey of
sorts, shifting from one radically different context to another. It goes without saying that this …

Historians of the early modern world (ca. 1450–1800) have characterized the period as the
first truly global moment in history, a time when cultures and peoples encountered one …

The question of what differentiates or unites Europe and Asia–geographically, culturally,
anthropologically–was already convoluted in European antiquity. In the late fifth century …

This article examines the shifting status of Inca religion in European discourse between
1550 and 1900. It is argued that a trope of Inca Exceptionalism—the idea that Inca religion …