![]() | The Aztec Kings : The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History Susan D. Gillespie is Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received a Ph.D. in 1983. The 1980 Komchen archaeological project in Yucatán introduced her to fieldwork in Mexico, and she has since directed excavations at Charco Redondo, on the coast of Oaxaca, and at Llano del Jícaro, an Olmec monument workshop in Veracruz. Her interest in archaeological theory led her to reexamine the popular story of Quetzalcoatl and the Toltecs in Mesoamerican prehistory in order to determine why archaeologists retained their faith in this ambiguous episode from postconquest historical traditions rather than trust their own archaeological data, which often contradicted it. This book resulted from that inquiry. Among her other publications on pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican ideology and iconography are "Ballgames and Boundaries," in The Mesoamerican Ballgame , edited by Vernon L. Scarborough and David R. Wilcox (University of Arizona Press, 1991). |
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