Bernard R Ortiz De Montellano

Biographic Data

ID179944
NAMEBernard R Ortiz De Montellano
GIVEN NAMESBernard R Ortiz
FAMILY NAMEDe Montellano
SIGNATUREDE MONTELLANO B R O
AFFILIATIONSWayne State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS65
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX5

  • Alcohol in Ancient Mexico

    Bernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2002

    Alcohol in Ancient Mexico is a comprehensive survey of all the various sources for native fermented drinks from the Arizona/New Mexico area to Central America. It does not include distilled products such as tequila, or beverages made from sugarcane; both of these were introduced by the Spanish after the conquest. It does, however, include modifications made to pre-Columbian beverages during colonial times.Bruman, a geographer, organizes the book …

  • Stairways to the Stars: Sky-watching in Three Great Ancient Cultures . Anthony Aveni

    Bernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEIsis1999

  • The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon: Mythology in the Mesoamerican Tradition

    D Gillespie, Susan Gillespie et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1998Cited by: 3

    Eighteen essays provide an accessible, entertaining look into a system of millennia-old legends and beliefs.Mythology is one of the great creations of humankind. It forms the core of sacred books and reflects the deepest preoccupations of human beings, their most intimate secrets, their glories, and their infamies.In 1990, Alfredo Lopez Austin, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Mesoamerican thought, began a series of essays about mythology …

  • Myths of Ancient Mexico

    Pedro Carrasco, Michael Graulich et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1998Cited by: 6

  • Utopia and History in Mexico: The First Chronicles of Mexican Civilization, 1520-1569

    Susan Schroeder, Georges Baudot et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1997Cited by: 13

  • Life and death in the Templo Mayor

    Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Bernard R Ortiz De Montellano et al.BOOKLife and death in the Templo Mayor1995

    In 1978, workmen in downtown Mexico City accidentally discovered a beautifully preserved monolithic sculpture at the foot of the main temple of the Aztecs. This important find led to a massive excavation that continues today under the direction of archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. The great temple, now known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolized the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and underworld …

  • Melanin, afrocentricity, and pseudoscience

    Open AccessBernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…1993Cited by: 5References: 47

    A component of the Afrocentric movement has incorporated a theory that black people, including ancient Egyptians, have superior mental, physical, and paranormal powers because they have more melanin both in their skin and in their brains. By extension it is also claimed that black people have more melatonin and β-MSH in their systems and that these compounds also contribute to the superiority of people of color over whites. In this paper, these c…

  • Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition

    Libbet Crandon, Bernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1992

  • Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition

    George M Foster, Bernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEEthnohistory1992

  • Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition

    Bernard R Ortiz De MontellanoBOOKAztec Medicine, Health, and…1991Cited by: 30

  • Chemical bases for medicinal plant use in Oaxaca, Mexico

    Open AccessBernard R Ortiz De Montellano, Carole H BrownerARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology1985

  • Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico

    Bernard R Ortiz De Montellano, Anthony F AveniARTICLETechnology and Culture1985

  • The antibacterial properties of an aztec wound remedy

    Open AccessJudith R Davidson, Judith Davidson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology1983

  • Counting Skulls: Comment on the Aztec Cannibalism Theory of Harner-Harris

    Open AccessBernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1983Cited by: 8References: 6

  • The body dangerous: Physiology and social stratification

    Bernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1982References: 5

    Alfredo López Austin. Cuerpo Humano e Ideologia: Las Concepciones de los Antiguos Nahuas. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 1980. Volume I, 490 pp. Volume II, 334 pp. Tables, illustrations, bibliography. 600 pesos paper

  • Entheogens: The interaction of biology and culture

    Bernard R Ortiz De MontellanoARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1981References: 10

    G. Reichel‐Dolmatoff. Beyond the Milky Way: Hallucinatory Imagery of the Tukano Indians. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978. x + 159 pp. Index, illustrations. $25.00, cloth. Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann. Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1979.192 pp. Index, illustrations. $34.95, cloth. R. Gordon Wasson. The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1980…