" 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 …

Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a
vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the …

Winner, PROSE Award, Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, & Archaeology,
Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2018 Inka khipus--spun and plied cords that …

This article considers the ongoing importance of studying writing practices within and
beyond anthropology. The works included here concentrate on scholarship that has …

This article analyzes how khipus, Andean knotted cords for communication, indicated their
subject matter. Spanish chroniclers attested to the existence of different genres of khipus; …

Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with
archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of …

In this essay, I would like to offer some thoughts about Mesoamerican writings from a point of
view that has rarely been taken in this field of research: the study of Native American picture …

The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic,
and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know about how colonial actors …

In this paper, I explore the politics of memory during the Toledan reforms—a series of
ambitious administrative changes legislated in colonial Peru between 1569 and 1581, by …

A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and
vibrant futurity by centering Native voices Typically represented as unsolved mysteries or …