The Aztec Templo Mayor (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1987 8vo (23.5 cm), VI, 513 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 8-9, 1983 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Templo Mayor research, 1521-1978" by Elizabeth Hill Boone; "The ethnohistorical record for the Huey Teocalli of Tenochtitlan" by Miguel Leon-Portilla; "Templo Mayor architecture: so what's new?" by Augusto F. Molina Montes; "Symbolism of ceramics from the Templo Mayor" by Doris Heyden; "Offering 48 of the Templo Mayor: a case of child sacrifice" by Juan Alberto Roman Berrelleza; "Mezcala style anthropomorphic artifacts in the Templo Mayor" by Carlos Javier Gonzalez Gonzalez; "The economics of Aztec luxury trade and tribute" by Frances F. Berdan; "Symbolism of the Templo Mayor" by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; "The provenience of the offerings: tribute and cosmovision" by Johanna Broda; "The masked god of fire" by Alfredo Lopez Austin; "The ideology of autosacrifice at the Templo Mayor" by Cecelia F. Klein; "Coronation at Tenochtitlan" by Richard F. Townsend; "Events commemorated by date plaques at the Templo Mayor: further thoughts on the solar metaphor" by Emily Umberger; "Texts, archaeology, art, and history in the Templo Mayor: reflections" by Esther Pasztory; "Symposium on the Aztec Templo Mayor: discussion" by H. B. Nicholson; "Summary perspective" by George Kubler.