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Recommended textbook:
Mary Ellen Miller, The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec, 6th edition (Thames and Hudson, 2019)
General summer reading:
Geismar, Hiady. “The Art of Anthropology: Questioning Contemporary Art in Ethnographic Display.” In The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, edited by Kylie Message and Andrea Witcomb, 1: Museum Theory: 183–210. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2015.
Gillespie, Susan D, Rosemary A Joyce, and Project Muse. Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in Anthropological Practice, 2015.
Jansen, Maarten E. R. G. N., and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez. Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art. The Early Americas: History and Culture, volume 5. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Lowenthal, David. The Past Is a Foreign Country. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Restall, Matthew. When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History. First edition. New York, NY: ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Summer reading (novels):
Garro, Elena. Recollections of things to come. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969.
Melville, Pauline. The Ventriloquist’s Tale. Paperback ed. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.