National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams in association with Conaculta-Inah
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico) -- History.; Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico) -- Guidebooks.; Indians of Mexico -- Museums -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Guidebooks.; Ethnological museums and collections -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Guidebooks.; Mexico City (Mexico) -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks.
Genres: Guidebooks.
Notes: Issued also under title: El Museo Nacional de Antropología.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [424]-425).
Table of contents: value: The development of cradles of civilization / Miguel Leon Portilla; value: The Museum at forty years / Pedro Ramirez Varquez; value: The adventures and misfortunes of the collections in the National Museum of Anthropology / Felipe Solis; value: Four decades of anthropological investigation, 1964-2004 / Eduard Matos; value: Prehistory / Joaquin Garcia Barcena; value: Prelude to civilization : the Preclassic Period in the highlands / Maricarmen Serra Puche; value: Teotihuacan / Linda Manzanilla; value: Tula / Robert Cobean and Guadalupe Mastache; value: The Mexica Hall and the archaeology of Tenochtitlan / Leonardo Lopez; value: Oaxaca / Nelly Robles; value: Reflections on the Gulf Coast Hall of the National Museum of Anthropology / Anne Cyphers; value: The Maya / Alejandro Martinez; value: Western Mexico / Phil Weigand; value: Northern Mexico / Beatriz Braniff; value: Indian pueblos in Mexico / Margarita Nolasco; value: Gran Nayar / Jesus Jauregui; value: The Indians in the Museum / Diego Prieto; value: Sierra de Puebla / Alessandro Lupo; value: The Gulf of Mexico / Hugo Garcia Valencia; value: Highland and lowland Maya tribes / Mario Humberto Ruz; value: Purepechas / Phil Wegand; value: Nahuas / Lourdes Maez; value: Cultures from notheastern Mexico / Jose Luis Moctezuma Zamarron; value: The exploration of things : material culture and education in the National Museum of Anthropology / Miguel Angel Fernandez; value: Cultural mechanisms : the mural in Mexico / Francisco Reyes Palma.