H. B. Nicholson
Appearance
H. B. Nicholson | |
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Born | |
Died | March 2, 2007 | (aged 81)
Citizenship | United States |
Scientific career | |
Fields | The Aztecs and prehispanic Mesoamerica generally |
Institutions | UCLA |
Henry Bigger Nicholson (September 5, 1925 – March 2, 2007)[1] who published under the name H.B. Nicholson, was a scholar of the Aztecs. His major scholarly monograph is Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs (2001).[2]
Nicholson died of a heart attack on March 2, 2007.
Publications
[edit]Monograph
[edit]- Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs Boulder: University Press of Colorado 2001
Articles and encyclopedia entries
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- Two Aztec Wood Idols: Iconographic and Chronologic Analysis (with Rainer Berger; 1968)
- "Religion in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico" In Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. 10, 395–446, Eds. G. F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal, Austin, university oí Texas Press.
- "Eduard Georg Seler, 1849-1922," Handbook of Middle American Indians(HMAI) Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Vol. 13 Part 2. (1973) pp. 348–369.
- "Sahagún’s Primeros Memoriales, Tepepulco", HMAI vol. 13 pp. 207–217.
- "Middle American Ethnohistory: An Overview," HMAI, vol. 15 pp. 487–505.
- Origins of Religious Art & Iconography in Preclassic Mesoamerica (as editor; 1976)
- Pre-Columbian Art from the Land Collection (with Alana Cordy-Collins; 1979)
- Art of Aztec Mexico: Treasures of Tenochtitlan (with Eloise Quiñones Keber; 1983)
- Mixteca-Puebla: Discoveries and Research in Mesoamerican Art and Archaeology (edited with Eloise Quiñones Keber; 1994)
- "Borgia Group of Pictorial Manuscripts" in Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures (OEMC), New York: Oxford University Press 2001, vol. 1, pp. 98–101.
- "Feathered Serpent" OEMC, vol. 1, pp. 397–400.
- "Mixteca-Puebla Style" OEMC, vol. 2, pp. 329–330.
- "Bernardino de Sahagún" OEMC, vol. 3, pp. 105–113.
- "Eduard Seler" OEMC, vol. 3, pp. 134–37.
- "Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl" OEMC vol. 3, 246–247.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ Dr. H.B. Nicholson - ‘Grandfather’ of Aztecs Studies - Mexicolore
References
[edit]- Cordy-Collins, Alana; Douglas Sharon, eds. (1993). Current Topics in Aztec Studies: Essays in Honor of Dr. H.B. Nicholson. San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Man. ISBN 0-937808-58-X. OCLC 29529785.
- Olivier, Guilhem (2007). "Henry B. Nicholson (1925–2007)" (online reproduction). Journal de la Société des américanistes (in French). 93 (2). Paris: Société des Américanistes: 153–171. doi:10.4000/jsa.8233. ISSN 0037-9174. OCLC 1765786.
- Quiñones Keber, Eloise (2007). "Gifts of the Feathered Serpent: The Life and Career of H. B. Nicholson (1925–2007)". Ancient Mesoamerica. 18 (1). London and New York: Cambridge University Press: 3–10. doi:10.1017/S0956536107000132. ISSN 0956-5361. OCLC 21544811.