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[Mark Morris]

The fall 1998 issue of the Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures
publishes the papers presented at the "Mexican Codices and Archeology"
conference organized by J. Gordon Brotherston and Geoff Conrad and held
at Indiana University in December 1997.  The conference had the purpose
of bringing together recent research in Mesoamerican writing and
archeology, which Brotherston notes, "has made it possible for the first
time to explore, and in some cases resolve, certain long-standing
enigmas in Mesoamerican culture and history."  Having been able to
participate in this conference through the help of R. Joe Campbell and
Gordon Brotherston, I would have to agree that the fruits shown by some
of the other participants from this hybrid endeavor were, at the least,
very informative, and others on this list might find pieces useful for
their own interests.  The full contents of the issue are posted below.
Mark Morris



Number 13, Fall 1998

            "Mexican Codices and Archeology"


Javier Urcid, Codices on Stone: The Genesis of Writing in Ancient Oaxaca

Tim Laughton, Izapa: A Preclassic Codex in Stone

Charles Twardy, Philosophical Lessons from Maya astronomy

Maarten Jansen, Purpose and Provenience of the Mixtec Codices

Manuel Hermann Lejarazu, The Dynastic History of the Lords of Ñunaha

Byron Hamann, First-born Son of a First-born Son? Discontinuous
Succession in the Mixtec Codices

Bas van Doesburg, Commercializing Coixtlahuaca History: The Twentieth
Century Adventures of the Lienzo de Tlapiltepec

Luis Reyes García, Documentos pictográficos del señorío popoloca de
Tecamachalco.

Adam Sellen, The Headlong Plunge in the Ritual Codices

Jo Harwood, Maps that Shape Ritual: The Idea of Movement in the Title
Pages of the Fejérváry and Mendoza Codices

Jeanne Gillespie, Establishing World Order in Mesoamerica: the Codex
Mendoza and the Lienzo de Tlaxcala

Gordon Brotherston, Reading Ancient Landscapes in and through the
Codices

Galen Brokaw, Indigenous and European Discursive Modes in Colonial
Mexican Land Documents

Mark Morris, The Transculturation of Justice in New Spain: Tepeaca's
Merced Proceso of 1596

José Rabasa, Franciscans and Dominicans under the Gaze of a Tlacuilo:
Plural-world Dwelling in an Indian Pictorial Codex

Anne Pyburn,Opening the Door to Xibalba: The Construction of Maya
History

John Monaghan and Byron Hamman, Reading as Social Practice and Cultural
Construction