Merideth Paxton

Merideth Paxton, who received her Ph.D. in art history, is Mesoamerican manuscripts editor of the Latin American Indian Literatures Journal. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.

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The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya

Cycles and Steps from the Madrid Codex

University of New Mexico Press

Traces implications of a previously unrecognized image of the solar year in the Madrid Codex to find new meanings in the Dresden Codex and the Maya calendar system and a regional settlement organization in Yucatan.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica

Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions

University of New Mexico Press

Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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