Author: Boone, Elizabeth Hill (ed.); et al.
Title: Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge in Mesoamerica: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith; (Series: Middle American Research Institute, Publication 69)
Description: New Orleans, Louisiana, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 2005. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. XIII, 446 pp. Very many BW illustrations, 14 tables. "This volume of papers stems from a symposium held at Tulane University on April 3-5, 1998, to honor Mary Elizabeth (Betsy) Smith"--Intro. Several essays, to whet your appetite, are: "In Tlamatinime : the wise men and women of Aztec Mexico" by Elizabeth Hill Boone. "Solar associations of hummingbird images in the Maya codices" by Merideth Paxton. "Yerbas y hechicerias del Yucatan : colonial and contemporary plant use in Yucatan, Mexico" by Marianna Appel Kunow. VG, corners slightly bumped, spine ends bent in.

Keywords: American Art ; Mesoamerica Studies ; ;


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