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MEXICO'S INDIGENOUS PAST. By Austin Alfredo López and Leonardo López Luján. Translated by Ortiz de Montellano Bernard R. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Pp. 349. $39.95 cloth.)

READING INCA HISTORY. By Julien Catherine. (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2000. Pp. 338. $49.95 cloth.)

THE INCA WORLD: THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-COLUMBIAN PERU, A.D. 1000–1534. Edited by Minelli Laura Laurencich. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. 240. $49.95 cloth)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Rex Koontz*
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University of Houston
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References

1. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).

2. Compare William M. Ringle, Tomás Gallareta Negrón, and George J. Bey, III, “The Return of Quetzalcoatl: Evidence for the Spread of World Religion during the Epiclassic Period,” Ancient Mesoamerica 9, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 183–232.

3. See the authors' Mito y realidad de zuyua : serpiente emplumada y las transformaciones mesoamericanas del clasico al pos-clasico (Mexico: Colegio de México, 1999) for an expanded essay on this thesis.

4. Rebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes (London: Thames and Hudson, 2002); Michael E. Moseley, The Incas and Their Ancestors (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001); Karen Olsen Bruhns, Ancient South America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

5. See Jonathan Culler, Ferdinand de Saussure (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986).

6. Jonathan Culler, “Introduction: What's the Point?” in The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis, ed. Mieke Bal and Inge E. Boer (New York : Continuum, 1994), 13–17.

7. See also John E. Clark and Michael Blake, “The Power of Prestige: Competitive Generosity and Emergence of Rank Societies in Lowland Mesoamerica,” in Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World, ed. Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and John W. Fox (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 17–30.

8. Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, ed. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D. Mignolo (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994).

9. R. Tom Zuidema, Inca Civilization in Cuzco, translated by Jean-Jacques Decoster (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990), 61–66; 81.

10. See especially Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Maya History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993); Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings (New York: William Morrow, 1990); Simon Martin and Nikolai Grübe, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000); William L. Fash, Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copán and the Ancient Maya (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001).

11. Compare Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla M., and David Stuart, eds., The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001) for an important recent appraisal of the history of Maya hieroglyphic decipherment.