Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Grindle, Merilee Serrill (1945-....)
Titre(s) : In the shadow of Quetzalcoatl [Texte imprimé] : Zelia Nuttall and the search for Mexico's ancient civilizations / Merilee Grindle
Publication : Cambridge ( Mass.) : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 380 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 348-365
Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new
urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of archaeologists began to look
beyond the bible for the origins of different cultures and civilizations. A child
of the San Francisco Gold Rush whose mother was born in Mexico City, Zelia Nuttall
threw herself into the study of Aztec customs and cosmology, eager to use the tools
of the emerging science of anthropology to prove that modern Mexico was built over
the ruins of ancient civilizations. Proud, disciplined, as prickly as she was independent,
Zelia Nuttall was the first person to accurately decode the Aztec calendar stone.
An intrepid researcher, she found pre-Columbian texts lost in European archives and
was skilled at making sense of their pictographic histories. Her work on the terra-cotta
heads of Teotihuacán captured the attention of Frederic Putnam, who offered her a
job at Harvard's Peabody Museum. Divorced and juggling motherhood and career, Nuttall
chose to follow her own star, publishing her discoveries and collecting artifacts
for US museums to make ends meet. From her beloved Casa Alvarado in Coyoacán, she
became a vital bridge between Mexican and US anthropologists, connecting them against
the backdrop of war and revolution. The first biography of Zelia Nuttall, In the Shadow
of Quetzalcoatl captures the appeal and contradictions that riddled the life of this
trailblazing woman, who contributed so much to the new field of anthropology until
a newly professionalized generation overshadowed her remarkable achievements and she
became, in the end, an artifact in her own museum--Jacket
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Zelia Nuttall and the search for Mexico's ancient civilizations
Sujet(s) : Nuttall, Zelia (1858-1933)
Femmes archéologues américaines -- Mexique -- 1800-....
Indiens d'Amérique -- Antiquités -- Mexique
Calendrier aztèque
Indice(s) Dewey :
972 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Centre de l'Amérique Mexique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674278332
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47429256w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47429256
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Table des matières : A new city and an old world -- ; A marriage gone wrong -- ; Mentor and disciple --
; New world treasure and glyphs on a stone -- ; Chicago holds a fair -- ; A museum
in the making -- ; A university takes charge -- ; At home in Mexico -- ; The inspector's
challenge -- ; Of sailors and revolution -- ; Empire and pleasure gardens -- ; Tea
with Lawrence -- ; Persistence -- ; Legacy
