A dictionary of Mesoamerican mythology and religion, providing a guide to this labyrinthine symbolic world
Mary Ellen Miller is an American art historian and Dean of Yale
College. In 2008, she was appointed as Sterling Professor at Yale.
She has served as the Chair of the History of Art, Latin American
Studies, and Archaeological Studies Departments at Yale, as well as
Director of Undergraduate Studies of the History of Art. She has
written many articles on Mesoamerican art, and her book with Linda
Schele, The Blood of Kings, is considered a landmark in Maya
studies. She is also the author, with Karl Taube, of The Gods and
Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya.
Karl Taube is an American Mesoamericanist, archaeologist,
epigrapher and ethnohistorian, known for his publications and
research into the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica and the
American Southwest.
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Latin American Antiquity
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