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Arts and Cultures of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes
A guide to selected overviews and primary source codices and chronicles
Image detail from a facsimile of the Dresden Codex, page 49. Maya culture. FAMSI, http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/ codices/dresden.html.
For more on Maya and other codices, see the Codices section of the Anthropology & Archaeology Research Guide.
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Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes by Call Number: E59.W9 W75 1994
Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru by Call Number: ND3044 .M36 2014
Stories in Red and Black; Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs by Call Number: F1219.54.A98 B66 2000Available as an e-book and in print.
Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period by Call Number: F1219.5 .R62 1994
Códices: los antiguos libros del nuevo mundo by Call Number: F1219 .L5552 2003
The Aztec and Maya Papermakers by Call Number: F1219 .V7 1944- Cortés: The Life of the Conqueror by His Secretary by Call Number: F1230 .C9216Translation of Istoria de la conquista de Mexico, the second part of the author's Historia general de las Indias
Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity by Call Number: F3429.3.R3 V3513 2011The first English translation of the earliest lengthy description of Inca religion, (1594). Written by an Inca Jesuit, it includes original descriptions of many different aspects of Inca religion, including human sacrifice, the use of hallucinogens, mummification rituals, the existence of transgendered priests in the ancient Andes, divination rituals based on animal entrails, oracles, burials, and confession.
Daily Life in Colonial Mexico: The Journey of Friar Ilarione da Bergamo, 1761-1768 by Call Number: F1211 .I4213 2000In 1761 Ilarione da Bergamo, a Capuchin friar, journeyed to Mexico. This description of his travels includes more than a dozen of Fra Ilarione's original drawings, including maps and sketches of Mexican flora.
- Colors & Cures in Maya and Nahuatl CodicesA guide to resources for investigating the plants used by the ancient and modern Maya and Nahutal cultures,