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Mary Elizabeth Smith and Ross Parmenter
The Codex Tulane is a never-before-published Mixtec pictorial manuscript housed in the Latin American Library at Tulane University. Painted in the mid-sixteenth century in vibrant colors on a long rolled strip of glued animal hides, it presents king lists from two towns in the Mixtec-speaking region of southern Puebla. This first publication in color of the entire obverse of the codex, the most handsome in the United States, presents the codex on fourteen overlapping facsimile plates printed by the Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt of Graz, Austria. The commentary includes an introduction, summary, and chapters on the signs and pictorial conventions, pictorial contents, and glosses by Mary Elizabeth Smith. Ross Parmenter's chapter on the acquisition of the codex traces its twentieth-century history up to its acquisition by the Middle American Research Institute in 1932. 1991. Cloth. x+142 pp., 50 figs., 13 tables, appendixes, notes, index, 101/2" by 123/4". ISBN 0-939238-91-8, LC 90-27616 $160.00
William M. Ringle and Thomas C. Smith-Stark
A complete analytical guide to the inscriptions of this important Classic site, this volume also includes a modernization of Thompson's hieroglyphic classification in light of recent epigraphic research. 1997. Cloth. ix+361 pp., 3 tables, hieroglyphic illustrations. ISBN 0-939238-93-4, LC 92-12571 $35.00
Compiled by E. Wyllys Andrews V and Elizabeth O. Mozzillo
The 1991 Congress at Tulane University. Summary reports by organizers on about 110 symposia with 1,200 scholars. Anthropology, archaeology, culture, history, linguistics, and other fields. 1994. Cloth. 293 pp. ISBN 0-939238-92-6, LC 93-32277 $45.00
Edited by Victoria R. Bricker and Gabrielle Vail
A commentary on the calendrical structure, iconography, and epigraphy of a continuous sequence of almanacs in the longest of the four remaining Maya codices. Includes the following chapters: The Structure of Almanacs in the Madrid Codex (V. R. Bricker); Some Comments on the Madrid Deer-Hunting Almanacs (Christopher L. von Nagy); The Deer-Trapping Almanacs in the Madrid Codex (G. Vail); The Roles and Relationships of God M and Other Black Gods in the Codices, with Specific Reference to Pages 50­56 of the Madrid Codex (Cassandra R. Bill); Dating a Section of the Madrid Codex: Astronomical and Iconographic Evidence (Donald H. Graff); and The "Calendar-Round" Almanac in the Madrid Codex (V. R. Bricker). 1997. Cloth. x+196 pp., 144 figures, 20 tables, index. ISBN 0-939238-94-2, $42.00
Irwin Rovner and Suzanne M. Lewenstein, with an appendix by Fred W. Nelson, Jr.
A revision of Rovner's 1975 dissertation on the lithic artifacts of Dzibilchaltún and several Río Bec sites derived from Tulane University excavations from 1957 to 1971. One of the first attempts to elaborate a comprehensive developmental sequence of Maya stone tool types. 1997. Cloth. xii+188 pp., 37 figs., mostly full-page illustrations of artifacts, 57 tables, appendixes with obsidian source data. ISBN 0-939238-95-0 $42.00
Zaqi Q'oxol and Cortés: The Conquest of Mexico in Quiché and Spanish.
El Baile de Toritos.
The Count of the Cycle and the Numbers of the Days.
Munro S. Edmonson
This volume is arranged in three sections. The first is the translation of the Quiché drama, "Zaqi Q'oxol and Cortés: The Conquest of Mexico." Even though this play re-enacts the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the setting is in Guatemala and the Aztecs speak Quiché. The second section is a translation of the drama, "The Bull Dance." Probably originally based on a Spanish play, it has over the years accumulated traits characteristic of Quiché drama to the point that one can now accept this as a Maya drama. The third section is a translation of a Quiché document entitled, "Calendar of the Indians of Guatemala. 1722. Kiché." It consists of a description of the 52-year calendar round and two 260-day almanacs. 1997. Cloth. vii+171 pp., 2 figures, 4 tables, index. ISBN 0-939238-96-9 $30.00
Philip C. Thompson
A case study of a colonial Yucatec Maya town, based primarily on cabildo records (Yucatec Maya) and marriage, baptism, and death records (Spanish) of the Catholic church. It reconstructs kinship terminology, distribution of wealth, inheritance patterns, landholding types, relative sizes, sequence, pace, and significance of land alienation, social strata, town endogamy-exogamy, post-marital residence, patrilineage exogamy, compadrazgo, origin and structure of local government (cabildo), sequence of officeholders, underlying patterns of office-holding, and sequence of town headmen (batabob). 1999. Cloth. xiii + 460 pp., 30 figures, 4 maps, 72 tables, 37 appendixes, notes, index. ISBN 0-939238-97-7. $75.00
68. An Encounter of Two Worlds: The Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua
Translated and annotated by Victoria R. Bricker and Helga-Maria Miram
The books of Chilam Balam are early Colonial texts from Yucatan, written in the Mayan language with Spanish characters. They are compendia of knowledge, including accounts of Maya history and mythical history. The volume includes the Maya text, an English translation, and a vast commentary, a basic thesis of which is that the Kaua is an amalgam of New and Old World knowledge, joined by varying historical and scientific circumstances and by existing cultural patterns of thought. 2002. Cloth. xviii + 548 pp., 77 figures, 32 tables, 3 appendixes, index. ISBN 0-939238-98-5. $75.00
69. Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith
The volume, an homage to Mary Elizabeth Smith, contains twenty-five essays that focus on the art and intellectual culture of ancient Mesoamerica as that culture is revealed primarily in painted books or "codices" of the native tradition. The authors explore aspects of indigenous knowledge, such as religion and ritual, calendrical systems, rulership, and spatial and historical reckoning. Cultures treated include the Toltecs, as well as the Aztecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Maya in the Pre-Columbian and colonial periods. 2005. Cloth. ISBN 939238-99-3 $75.00
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