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| 1 | Books I see recommended the most (though you should read the akshistorians posts too in the other pastebin for a foundational context): | |
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| 3 | - Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (and Ross Hassig's other works), | |
| 4 | - Aztec Thought and Culture (note: is dense and may not be palatable too those without a foundational context) | |
| 5 | - Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs | |
| 6 | - 1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus. | |
| 7 | - Seven myths of the Spanish conquest | |
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| 9 | Askhistorian's booklist: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/americas/latinamerica#wiki_pre-columbian | |
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| 11 | Master list: (note, includes north native americans and Andean civilization books too, not just Mesoamerica, unfortunately not organized. Worth noting some of these books are just stuff I saw looked cool and I can';t vouch for their reliability, but most of them (>90% were recommended by somebody who knows their shit)): | |
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| 13 | https://www.amazon.com/Mexico-Spanish-Conquest-Ross-Hassig/dp/0806137932 | |
| 14 | At Home with the Aztecs | |
| 15 | https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Symbols-Ancient-Mexico-Maya/dp/0500050686/ | |
| 16 | https://www.amazon.com/Society-Ancient-Mesoamerica-Ross-Hassig/dp/0520077342 | |
| 17 | https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Warfare-Expansion-Political-Civilization/dp/0806127732 | |
| 18 | https://www.amazon.com/Society-Ancient-Mesoamerica-Ross-Hassig/dp/0520077342 | |
| 19 | https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Columbian-Literatures-Mexico-Civilization-American/dp/0806119748 | |
| 20 | https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Thought-Culture-Civilization-American/dp/0806122951 | |
| 21 | https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-American-Poets-John-Curl/dp/1931010218 | |
| 22 | https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Culture-Ancient-Americas-Contemporary/dp/0806155701 | |
| 23 | https://tlatollotl.tumblr.com/post/170099005741/introduction-to-mesoamerica-reading-material | |
| 24 | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-aztecs-9780199341962?cc | |
| 25 | https://www.amazon.com/Insignia-Rank-Nahua-World-Seventeenth/dp/1607322404/ref=sr_1_1/136-8951594-4837100?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517834213&sr=1-1&keywords=9781607322405 | |
| 26 | https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3777420638/hyperallergic-20 | |
| 27 | https://www.amazon.com/Arquitectura-Prehispanica-Ignacio-Marquina/dp/B000IBDBT8 | |
| 28 | https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Health-Nutrition-Bernard-Montellano/dp/0813515637 | |
| 29 | Indian Clothing Before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes From the Codices | |
| 30 | http://www.amazon.com/Nahuatl-Written-Examples-Contraversions-Differences/dp/0804744580 | |
| 31 | Feathers visions of precolumbian america and ESPECIALLY Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe 1400–1700 | |
| 32 | Aztec Imperial Strategies - Mary G. Hodges | |
| 33 | Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm | |
| 34 | Shipwrecks, by Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca | |
| 35 | In The Palace of Nezhuacoyotl, Eduardo J. Douglas | |
| 36 | Jonsoo Lee's The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics | |
| 37 | Elizabeth Hill Boone's Stories in Red and Black | |
| 38 | Byland and Pohl's In The Realm of 8 Deer | |
| 39 | Richard Burger's Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization | |
| 40 | The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan | |
| 41 | Hillforts of the ancient Andes: Colla warfare, society, and landscape by Elizabeth Arkush | |
| 42 | Andean Expressions by George Lau | |
| 43 | Michael Moseley's The Incas and their ancestors | |
| 44 | Jeffrey Quilter's The Ancient Central Andes | |
| 45 | Mesoamerican Chronology, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, Vol. 2, Carrasco, Davíd (Ed.), Oxford 2001. | |
| 46 | Trade, Tribute, and Transportation by Ross Hassig | |
| 47 | Aztec City-States in the Basin of Mexico and the Morelos by Michael E. Smith | |
| 48 | Tariacuri’s Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State by Helen Pollard | |
| 49 | The Essential Codex Mendoza - Edited by Francis F Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt | |
| 50 | Fash, William L. "The sculptural façade of structure 9N-82: Content, form, and significance." The House of the Bacabs, Studies in Precolumbian Art and Archaeology 92 (1989): 41-72. | |
| 51 | Hirth, Kenneth G. 2003. The Altepetl and Urban Structure in Prehispanic Mesoamerica/El Altepetl y la estructura urbana en la Mesoamerica. In El Urbanismo en Mesoamerica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica. Vol. I. pp. 57-84. William T. Sanders, Alba Guadalupe Mastache, and Robert H. Cobean (ed.). Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Pennsylvania State University. México, D.F. | |
| 52 | Palaces of the Ancient New World by Evans and Pillsbury is available online as a pdf for free | |
| 53 | The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations, edited by Kent Flannery and Marcus Joyce. | |
| 54 | Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved, by Marcus Joyce and Kent Flannery. | |
| 55 | Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico, by Arthur Joyce. | |
| 56 | Fash, William L. "The sculptural façade of structure 9N-82: Content, form, and significance." The House of the Bacabs, Studies in Precolumbian Art and Archaeology 92 (1989): 41-72. | |
| 57 | Hirth, Kenneth G. 2003. The Altepetl and Urban Structure in Prehispanic Mesoamerica/El Altepetl y la estructura urbana en la Mesoamerica. In El Urbanismo en Mesoamerica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica. Vol. I. pp. 57-84. William T. Sanders, Alba Guadalupe Mastache, and Robert H. Cobean (ed.). Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Pennsylvania State University. México, D.F. | |
| 58 | http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/40092015/MULTI-SENSOR_3D_DOCUMENTATION_OF_THE_MAY20151117-18316-1ptc6cn.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1489905527&Signature=sKNhXYSLMFDrdIzZvu1U%2BCmKMBE%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DMulti-sensor_3D_documentation_of_the_May.pdf | |
| 59 | http://128.103.33.14/publications/doaks_online_publications/isbn_0-88402-300-1.pdf | |
| 60 | http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-84-Aztlan.pdf | |
| 61 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024519712257 | |
| 62 | Krzysztof Makowski's 2008 article on Andean Urbanism, which is a book chapter in the 2008 Handbook of South American Archaeology edited by Helaine Silverman and Bill Isbell. | |
| 63 | some other sort of volume by Makowski on peru that's in spanish | |
| 64 | Richard Burger's 1992 "Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization". | |
| 65 | https://archive.org/stream/theKingdomofChimorJohnHowlandRowe#page/n0/mode/2up | |
| 66 | Art Joyce’s “Mixtecs, Zapotec, and Chatinos”. | |
| 67 | Annals of Native America. How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive | |
| 68 | Annals Of His Time. Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin | |
| 69 | Ronald Spores and Andrew Balkasnki’s “The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient times to the Present.” (However, the end seems a bit off place since it is the voice of the senior author trying to play down the archaeology and favor ethnoarchaeology. ) | |
| 70 | Jeffrey Blomster’s “After Monte Alban: Transformation and Negotiations in Oaxaca, Mexico”. | |
| 71 | Kent Flannery’s “The Could People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations”, (somewhat outdated in light of newer research) | |
| 72 | Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery’s Zapotec Civilization: How urban Society Evolved in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley” (somewhat outdated in light of newer research) | |
| 73 | Marcus Winter’s “ Oaxaca: The Archaeological Record”. (somewhat outdated in light of newer research) | |
| 74 | A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Friedel and Schele | |
| 75 | Carrasco and Sessions' Daily Life the Aztecs; and Soustelle's book of the same name | |
| 76 | Brundage's A Rain of Darts: The Mexica Aztecs, but has it's flaws; it sometimes cuts corners or oversells things for dramatic flair. | |
| 77 | gary jenning's aztec (note: is fictional, but fairly damn accurate) | |
| 78 | Tlacaelel Remembered by Susan Schroeder, | |
| 79 | should I get the other books in the The Civilization of the American Indian Series? ask | |
| 80 | Tariacuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State by Helen Pollard | |
| 81 | The Toltecs: Until the Fall of Tula by Nigel Davies | |
| 82 | George Cowgill's Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico | |
| 83 | Robert Carmack's The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan. | |
| 84 | Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment | |
| 85 | Greater Mesoamerica: The Art and Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico | |
| 86 | Afandor-Pujol's The Relación de Michoacán and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico. | |
| 87 | t La Arquiología en los Anales del Museo Michoacano by Goytia and Silva | |
| 88 | Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century (note: I added this, wasn't suggested) | |
| 89 | Ida Altman’s book The War for Mexico’s West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia 1524-1550 | |
| 90 | Charles Gibson's Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century | |
| 91 | Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South HAS THE MISSIPIAN ART, BUY 2 TO SCAN, ASK KAMAZOTZ | |
| 92 | Skywatchers by Anthony Aveni | |
| 93 | Warriors & Warlords: The Art of Angus McBride (General Military | |
| 94 | The Postclassic Mesoamerican World Edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan has comparsons to oold world cultures | |
| 95 | Breaking the Maya Code by Michael Coe, | |
| 96 | Reading the Maya Glyphs by Coe and Mark VanStone, | |
| 97 | Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube, | |
| 98 | Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes", co-edited with Walter Mignolo, | |
| 99 | Their Way of Writing Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America" (co-ed. Gary Urton)., | |
| 100 | "The Darker Side Of the Renaissance"., other stuff by mignolo | |
| 101 | The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya (2006) by Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube | |
| 102 | America's First Cuisines sophie coe | |
| 103 | https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/olmec-art-at-dumbarton-oaks and otther books/files of Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, find more | |
| 104 | The Aztec World, edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Gary M. Feinman (2008). | |
| 105 | Aztecs: an Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen | |
| 106 | City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization | |
| 107 | How the Maya Built Their World. by Elliot Abrams | |
| 108 | Carrasco's Daily Life of the Aztecs and Aguilar-Moreno's Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. | |
| 109 | David Carrasco's City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization | |
| 110 | Aztecs: an Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen gets a bit postmodern | |
| 111 | Smith, Mike. 2003. The Aztecs. | |
| 112 | Richard F. Townsend's The Aztecs | |
| 113 | Aztec Warfare: Goals and Battlefield Comportment | |
| 114 | Annals of Native America. How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive | |
| 115 | Annals Of His Time. Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin | |
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| 119 | Not books, but studies/websites i've been reccomended: | |
| 120 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805201/ | |
| 121 | http://www.famsi.org/research/pitts/pitts_piedras_negras_history.pdf | |
| 122 | http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya.html | |
| 123 | https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/cmhi/ | |
| 124 | https://decipherment.wordpress.com/ | |
| 125 | http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/cbc/index.htm | |
| 126 | http://library.osu.edu/projects/popolwuj/ | |
| 127 | http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf | |
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| 130 | Seperate list somebody gave me I haven't gone through yet: https://pastebin.com/pMXL2FsN |
