SASA Book Club: "In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl" by Dr. Merilee Grindle

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Hosted by Cassandra May.

Join us as we interview Dr. Merilee Grindle about her new book: In the Shadow of Quetalcoatl

About the book: The gripping story of a pioneering anthropologist whose exploration of Aztec cosmology, rediscovery of ancient texts, and passion for collecting helped shape our understanding of pre-Columbian Mexico.  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…