Title: Estudios del México antiguo
Description: "Informative series of public lectures by noted scholars, including Barba de Piña Chan's 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; Folan's survey of excavations at Calakmul, Campeche, a site with impressive and telling classic period tombs; Piña Chan's 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 Goytia's revelations about the cultural life highlighted by excavations at Huandacareo in the basin of Cuitzeo, Michoacan; Olivé Negrete's exploration of the elusive meaning of Aztlan; Valle de Revueltas' summary of her research on Tepetlaoztoc, part of Acolhuacan; Heyden's considerations regarding the fate of 16th-century writings of Sahagún and Durán; and Pérez-Rocha's summary of her work on colonial agrarian issues in the jurisdiction of Tacuba"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Indians of Mexico, Antiquities
Places: Mexico