Mixtec Indians
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The following guide provides Web site links, a list of selected
books, and access to online periodical articles about this subject.
The Web site links have been researched, evaluated, and annotated by
Rio Hondo College Librarians. The Librarians have specifically
selected these Web sites to meet the research needs of Rio Hondo
College students
Web Site Links
Ancient
Mesoamerican Civilizations http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/index.html
A rather comprehensive Web site developed and maintained by Dr. Kevin L.
Callahan, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. The Mixtec (along
with the Maya, Zapotec, and Aztecs) are the primary groups addressed in a series
of Web-based documents.
Mesoweb http://www.mesoweb.com/
Subtitled An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures, this site is
"devoted to ancient Mesoamerica and its cultures: the Olmec, Maya,
Aztec, Teotihuacano, Toltec, Mixtec, Zapotec and others" and
presents information about an archeological dig and restoration
project at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. Photo, map,
animations, videos (requiring QuickTime), rubbings of Maya
sculptures, and an illustrated encyclopedia are available as well as
the text of the first Palenque roundtable: a conference on art,
iconography, and dynastic history of Palenque. There are
related links. A joint venture of the Pre-Columbian Art
Research Institute (PARI) and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de
Antropologia y Historia (INAH).
Mixtec
Codices http://pages.prodigy.net/gbonline/awmixtec.html
This Web site by a person identifying himself only as
"GBonline" briefly discusses, with accompanying photographs, six
Mixtec codices (these "manuscripts" being acclaimed artifacts of
Mixtec civilization).
Mixtec
(.WAV) Art http://members.aol.com/cabrakan/mixtec.htm
Ten examples of Mixtec art are shown on this site, including
two Mixtec codices.
Riddles
in the Southeastern Nochixtlán Mixtec language
http://www.sil.org/americas/mexico/mixteca/nochixtlan-se/F002-Adiv-MXY.htm
Two Mixtec riddles are printed in Mixtec, Spanish, and English and
their solutions are provide
Books
The following books can be located in the
Rio Hondo College Library.
Reference Books (2nd floor)
Non-circulating:
Ancient Mexico & Central America :
archaeology and culture history
Call number: Ref F1219.E85 2004
Encyclopedia of Ancient Mesoamerica
Call number: Ref F1219.B932 1996
Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture
Call number: Ref F1204.E539 1997x
The flayed God : the Mesoamerican mythological tradition :
sacred texts and images from pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America
Call number: Ref F1219.3.R38M24 1992
The Gods and symbols of ancient Mexico and the Maya
Call number: Ref F1435.3.R3M55 1993
Handbook of Middle American Indians (Vol. 11: Archaeology of
Northern Mesoamerica)
Call number: Ref F1434.H3 v.11
The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures : the
civilizations of Mexico and Central America
Call number: Ref F1218.6.O95 2001
Vanished Mesoamerican civilizations : the
history and culture of the Zapotecs and Mixtecs
Call number: Ref F1219.8.Z37G6713 2001
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Articles
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1. CO(mixtec) [Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed ]
Researched and evaluated by:
M. Hogarth, Librarian 2/2000
last update: T. Shacklett, Librarian 5/2008