Sculpture of a Huastec goddess

References

C. McEwan, Ancient American Art in Detail (London, The British Museum Press, 2009)

L. López Luján, The offerings of the Templo Mayor (University Press of Colorado, 1994)

E.P. Benson and E.H. Boone, The art and iconography of lat (Washington, D.C., Trustees for Harvard University, 1982)

F.F. Berdan and others, Aztec imperial strategies (Washington, D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996)

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Further reading

D. Carrasco, ‘We Eat the Gods and the Gods Eat us’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 63 (1995), 429–463

D. Carrasco, ‘Uttered from the Heart: Guilty Rhetoric among the Aztecs’, History of Religions, 39 (1999), 1–31

D. Carrasco, City of Sacrifice: the Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilisation (Boston, 1999)

M.M. Carrera, The Representation of Women in Aztec-Mexica sculpture (PhD thesis, 1979)

I. Clendinnen, ‘The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society’, Past & Present, 107 (1985), 44–89

J. de Durand Forest, ‘Tlazolteotl’, in J.K. Josserand & K. Dakin (eds.),  Smoke and Mist: Mesoamerican Studies in Memory of Thelma D. Sullivan, (Oxford, 1988), pp. 191–216

W. Gingerich, ‘Three Nahuatl Hymns on the Mother Archetype: an Interpretive Commentary’, Mexican Studies, 4 (1988), 191–244

C.F. Klein, ‘Snares and Entrails: Mesoamerican Symbols of Sin and Punishment’, Anthropology and Aesthetics, 19/20 (1990/1), 81–103

C.F. Klein, ‘Teocuitlatl, “Divine Excrement”: the Significance of “Holy Shit” in Ancient Mexico’, Art Journal, 52 (1993), 20–27

J. Nash, ‘Gendered Deities and the Survival of Culture’, History of Religions, 36 (2007), 333–356

C. Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (New York, 2008)

J.M.D. Pohl, ‘Themes of Drunkenness, Violence and Factionalism in Tlaxcalan Altar Paintings’, Anthropology and Aesthetics, 33 (1998), 184–207

T.D. Sullivan, ‘Tlazolteotl-Ixcuina: the Great Spinner and Weaver’, in Elizabeth Hill Boon, The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Mexico, (Washington, 1982), pp. 7–34