The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2579080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan R Sandstrom, Jill Leslie Furst, Jill Leslie Mckeever Furst |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 188 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3034402 |
| OpenAlex | W2009184732 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
This work explores basic pre-Columbian beliefs about the soul among ancient Mesoamerican peoples. It focuses on the Central Mexican Aztecs (the Mexica), who believed in multiple souls that gave humans their shared and individual characteristics and survived the body after death
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biology · Natural (archaeology · Natural history · Soul · Theology · Ecology · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
Matriz sin tumba”
Native Studies Keywords
Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico
Environmental Setting, Natural Symbols, and Subsistence
Understanding Early Civilizations
Children's Everyday Learning by Assuming Responsibility for Others
Culture and Reason
Telling History in Feathers
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing
Chocolate in the Underworld Space of Death
No Longer Home
Rock Shelters as Women's Retreats
Making Something of Herself
Bodies Moving in Space
Monument 65
A Divine Wind
States of Heart
The nahualli of Christ
El remolino actuado
The emergence of divine rulership in Formative Mesoamerica
Deciphering Ancient Maya Ethno-Metaphysics
Between the Glosses
The Archaeology of Commoner Social Memories and Legitimizing Histories
Envisioning Artifacts
Llorar amargamente’
Hacia una reconsideración del Códice de la Cruz Badiano
Winds, heart, and heat in premodern Franciscan and Nahua concepts of ‘soul’
Theories in the Flesh and Flights of the Imagination
Abundant Gifts of Stone and Bone
Hilos de continuidad y cambio. Tejiendo unidad en antropología
The Ilhuica of the Nahua
An Animating Principle in Confrontation With Christianity? De(re)constructing the Nahua “Soul
How to Punish Indians
The Person, Destiny, and the Construction of Difference in Mesoamerica
Reading Medicine in the Codex de la Cruz Badiano
Caves and Crystalmancy
Archaeological Views of Aztec Culture
Wood of the Gods
Speech-Breath
Bioarchaeological Analysis of Sacrificial Victims from a Postclassic Maya Temple from Ixlu, el Peten, Guatemala
A shaman's burial from an Early Classic cave in the Maya Mountains of Belize, Central America
Waning pilgrimage paths and modern roadscapes
A problem from hell
Facing Objects
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology
Why the Head? Cranial Modification as Protection and Ensoulment Among the Maya
Vital warmth and well-being
Becoming Maya
A Child's House
La noción de persona en mesoamérica
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,82 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |