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Mixtec Indians
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
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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).
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 provided.
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Gail Virtual Reference Library
Search the Gale Virtual Reference Library for reference articles
on Mixtec Indians.
Books
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The following books can be located in the
Rio Hondo College Library.
Reference Books
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
Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the
following Library of Congress subject headings:
Mixtec Indians
Mixtec Indians--Writing
Mexico--History--To 1519
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Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo
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Articles
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The Rio Hondo College Library
provides online access to full-text articles through our
online databases. Please note: you must be a Rio Hondo College
student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.
The sample searches
and articles below are from the
ProQuest database. If you are viewing this
subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the
links below. To gain access if you are at home or off-campus,
first click here:
https://rioweb.riohondo.edu/library/. Input your student
ID number and password [your birthdate]. You will see a
list of all the online databases to which you have access. Click on ProQuest and enter the database. You may conduct your own
searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and
click on any of the links below:
CO(mixtec)
[Scholarly
journals, including peer-reviewed ]
Researched and evaluated by:
M. Hogarth, Librarian 2/2000
last update: T. Shabelnik, Librarian 3/2010
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