" Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortâes walked along a causeway
leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That …

A sophisticated, state-of-the-art study of the remaking of Christianity by indigenous societies,
Words and Worlds Turned Around reveals the manifold transformations of Christian …

Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within
Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four …

El quinto sol es el que iluminó a los aztecas, el que los acompañó en su peregrinar desde la
mítica Aztlán hasta el islote que se convertiría en Tenochtitlan, el que inspiró su mitología y …

Formulating the concept of “ethno-ethnohistory,” Ray Fogelson urged ethnohistorians to
seek out indigenous people's perspectives on their own pasts, which might differ from …

Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy women
within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the …

Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico explores the development of religion as transferred
from Spain to Tenochtitlan. The religious world of both Aztecs and Spanish Catholics at time …

Three master narratives currently dominate the analysis of modern mission history.? One
puts foreign missionaries at the heart of the story.? A second emphasizes the colonial aspect …

SINCE it encompasses far more than prayer, and as its genres belong to realms that ex-tend
beyond cosmology, public ceremony, and faith, ritual language is a multifarious beast, to …

This chapter provides a condensed overview of the cultural and intellectual history of ritual
language from classical antiquity to the nineteenth century, with a focus on how the …