León García Garagarza
Biographic Data
| ID | 684489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | León García Garagarza |
| GIVEN NAMES | León García |
| FAMILY NAME | Garagarza |
| SIGNATURE | GARAGARZA L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Flesh and Blood of Huitzilopochtli
Migrant Aztecs consolidated their identity as Mexicas and their political autonomy as they learned to exploit lacustrine resources, particularly by making the larva of the brine fly (Nahuatl: izcahuitli) their main food staple and article of trade. The mobility of the Mexica people, upon arriving in the basin of Lake Texcoco, was predicated on the mobility of this crucial resource to regional markets. Moreover, a close reading of early Indigenous…
The Year the People Turned into Cattle
The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli
This essay examines some instances of interspecific dialogues between owls and human beings recorded in Nahuatl-language sources from the sixteenth century. Since ancient times, owls have been considered omens of death in Mexico. This article analyzes the cultural and linguistic context of this belief among the contact-period Nahuas: the import of tetzahuitl (omens) in the animistic worldview of the Aztecs, as well as the characteristic semantic …
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl
During his long academic career, the Mexican historian Alfredo López Austin has published numerous books and articles, creating a body of work that has radically transformed our understanding of Mesoamerica. However, only a handful of his works have been translated into English, so the University Press of Colorado's recent publication of The Myth of Quetzalcoatl, López Austin's first masterpiece, meticulously translated by Russ Davidson and Guilh…
The Fate of Earthly Things
According to colonial historiography, in 1519 the Aztecs identified the Spaniards as “gods” (Nahuatl teteoh), an equivocation that eventually precipitated the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The subject of the conquistadors’ apotheosis has been hotly debated by scholars, especially since the divinization of European invaders would become a reiterated motif of the colonial enterprise around the globe. While the early ecclesiastical chroniclers saw in…
The Year the People Turned into Cattle
The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli
This essay examines some instances of interspecific dialogues between owls and human beings recorded in Nahuatl-language sources from the sixteenth century. Since ancient times, owls have been considered omens of death in Mexico. This article analyzes the cultural and linguistic context of this belief among the contact-period Nahuas: the import of tetzahuitl (omens) in the animistic worldview of the Aztecs, as well as the characteristic semantic …
The Year the People Turned into Cattle
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl
During his long academic career, the Mexican historian Alfredo López Austin has published numerous books and articles, creating a body of work that has radically transformed our understanding of Mesoamerica. However, only a handful of his works have been translated into English, so the University Press of Colorado's recent publication of The Myth of Quetzalcoatl, López Austin's first masterpiece, meticulously translated by Russ Davidson and Guilh…
The Fate of Earthly Things
According to colonial historiography, in 1519 the Aztecs identified the Spaniards as “gods” (Nahuatl teteoh), an equivocation that eventually precipitated the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The subject of the conquistadors’ apotheosis has been hotly debated by scholars, especially since the divinization of European invaders would become a reiterated motif of the colonial enterprise around the globe. While the early ecclesiastical chroniclers saw in…
The Year the People Turned into Cattle
The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli
This essay examines some instances of interspecific dialogues between owls and human beings recorded in Nahuatl-language sources from the sixteenth century. Since ancient times, owls have been considered omens of death in Mexico. This article analyzes the cultural and linguistic context of this belief among the contact-period Nahuas: the import of tetzahuitl (omens) in the animistic worldview of the Aztecs, as well as the characteristic semantic …
Flesh and Blood of Huitzilopochtli
Migrant Aztecs consolidated their identity as Mexicas and their political autonomy as they learned to exploit lacustrine resources, particularly by making the larva of the brine fly (Nahuatl: izcahuitli) their main food staple and article of trade. The mobility of the Mexica people, upon arriving in the basin of Lake Texcoco, was predicated on the mobility of this crucial resource to regional markets. Moreover, a close reading of early Indigenous…
History (5 works) · Latin American history and culture (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Nahuatl (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Historiography (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)