...V. H. Hispanic Studies in Honor of Nicholson B. Adams . Edited by Keller John Esten and Selig Karl-Ludwig . Chapel Hill , 1966 . University of North Carolina Press . Illustrations. Notes . Pp. 197 . $6.50 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968...

...H. B. Nicholson A thorough critique and discussion of all questionable passages in A Rain of Darts: The Mexica Aztecs— which would include considerable attention to the more “ethnographic” sections—would consume many pages. In the brief space allotted, I have attempted to point out a few...

...H. B. Nicholson Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Náhuatl Mind . By León-Portilla Miguel . Translated by Davis Jack Emory . Norman , 1963 . University of Oklahoma Press . Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol. 67 . Notes. Illustrations. Appendices...

...H. B. Nicholson History of Indo-American Literature . Book I: Pre-Columbian Literatures, Aztec, Incan, Maya, Quiché . By Arías-Larreta Abraham . Starkville, Miss. , 1965 . New World Library . Notes. Glossaries. Bibliography . Pp. xiii , 118 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University...

...Nicholson B. Adams; Jean Alsworth The Concept of Modernism in Hispanic Criticism . By Davison Ned J. . Boulder , 1966 . Pruett Press . Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 118 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Directed toward a tentative...

...Nicholson B. Adams Spanish Thought and Letters in the Twentieth Century. An International Symposium Held at Vanderbilt University to Commemorate the Centenary of the Birth of Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1964 . Edited by Bleiberg German and Fox E. Inman . Nashville , 1966...

...Matthew Restall Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs . By Nicholson H. B. . Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2001 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index . lxiv , 360...

...Frances Karttunen Primeros Memoriales . By Sahagún Fray Bernardino De . Paleography of Nahuatl text and English translation by Sullivan Thelma D. . Completed and revised, with additions, by Nicholson H. B. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1997 . Tables. Figures...

... University Press 1971 Latin Americanists have lamented for some years the lack of a fresh, up-to-date, solid, one-volume synthesis of the Spanish American revolutions for independence. In 1969 the publishers of Irene Nicholson’s The Liberators: A Study of Independence Movements in Spanish America...

...Michael C. Meyer The X in Mexico. Growth within Tradition . By Nicholson Irene . Garden City , 1965 . Doubleday and Company . Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 295 . $4.95 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Through several...

... years ago Nicholson concluded his doctoral dissertation on Quetzalcoatl and the Toltecs of central Mexico with this challenge: From this brief and quite inadequate review, then, it is clear that, chronologically, the Toltec and Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl problems are still very far from solution...

... to the heroes of independence are not the greatest disappointments. After all, we need a sophisticated reassessment of those protocaudillos. Unfortunately, the book presents conceptual flaws which are surprising when one recalls Miss Nicholson’s birth in Chile and long residence in Mexico. The expected insight...

...Elizabeth Easby Origins of Religious Art and Iconography in Preclassic Mesoamerica . Edited by Nicholson H. B. . Los Angeles , 1976 . UCLA Latin American Center . Illustrations. Index . Pp. vii , 181 . Cloth. $17.50 . Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Though...

... of success. Thompson’s, Nicholson’s, and Furst’s contributions are by far the most exciting. Thompson argues that the classic Maya rulers had divine authority. His ethnohistoric citations, combined with the abundant illustrations of classic period “rulers” with the appurtenances of Itzam Na, are quite...

... cross,” a symbol found from Teotihuacan to the Maya area, associated with the 260-day calendar and astronomical phenomena, and seemingly indicative of the Teotihuacan-Maya interaction discussed below. Essays by Saburo Sugiyama and H. B. Nicholson treat the genealogy of the Feathered Serpent, an icon...

... Jiménez Moreno and Eulalia Guzmán, worked together with distinguished counterparts from other countries—Hasso von Winning, H. B. Nicholson, George Kubler, Hans Lenz, Frederick Peterson, Charles Wicke and others. The resulting tour de force, profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, testified...

... contributions, plus a preface by the editor. H. B. Nicholson provides a tribute to the two men and their work, along with bibliographies for each. His piece is followed by brief reflections on the translation project by Anderson and Dibble themselves. Dibble notes that what they envisioned as a 5-year...

.... Mircea Eliade is cited as frequently as H. B. Nicholson, anthropologist and leading authority on Aztec cultural history. This reviewer disagrees with Eliade’s opinion that myth reveals exemplary models for all human rites and activities. Another school of the history of religions (W. Robertson Smith...

... Glass, H. B. Nicholson, and others for the Handbook of Middle American Indians . Esteve Barba’s concentration on historical writing by individual authors means that many important documents, e.g., the Relaciones geográficas and the viceregal memorias , receive short shrift. In general and quite...

... with similar representations in Central Mexican iconography. But Dr. Furst proceeds from new assumptions to deny the validity of this tradition that includes Eduard Seler, Walter Lehmann, Karl Nowotny, Alfonso Caso, and Henry B. Nicholson. Her explicit assumptions are that all the representations in Codex...