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Merilee Grindle
Auteur de In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations
Œuvres de Merilee Grindle
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Grindle, Merilee
- Nom légal
- Grindle, Merilee Serrill
- Autres noms
- Grindle, Merilee S.
- Date de naissance
- 1945-05-19
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D|1976)
Brown University (MA|1973)
Wellesley College (BA|1967) - Professions
- professor
political scientist - Organisations
- Harvard University
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 25
- Popularité
- #508,561
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
It was also ‘a time when Zelia Nuttall was famous’, something which is no longer true. Born in 1857, Nuttall was a native Californian whose father was Irish and grandmother Mexican. She played crucial roles in the dawning development of anthropology, specifically the study of ancient Mexican cultures such as that of the Aztecs. She wrote well over 100 papers and articles during the final two decades of the 19th century and the first three decades of the 20th. The British Library’s Codex Nuttall, an ancient Mexican manuscript, is named after her. Before 1903 she was based in San Francisco but travelled extensively and lived in various European cities. After that, until her death in 1933, she lived in Coyoacán, just outside Mexico City, aside from seven years when the Mexican Revolution forced her into temporary exile in England and San Francisco.
Grindle does not allow discursions into Nuttall’s scholarly interests to slow down the strong narrative pace of her book. It reminded me of William Boyd’s novels: we follow from birth to death a flawed but ultimately heroic central protagonist. Specialised knowledge of a particular profession provides captivating details as our protagonist navigates the events and personalities of world history, in this case the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893), the Great San Francisco Earthquake (1906) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-17).
Read the rest of the review at HistoryToday.com.
Matthew Restall is Sparks Professor of History at Penn State University and author of When Montezuma Met Cortés (Ecco, 2018) and The Maya (Oxford University Press, 2020).… (plus d'informations)