Thursday, November 11
From the back of a volume sitting on my desk, under the heading Books of Related Interest:
Dogs of the Conquest
by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner
"A vivid and surprising account of the introduction of European dogs into the Americas." --The Times of the Americas. 256 pages, illustrations, maps.
Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico
by Alan R. Sanstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
"A valuable addition to Mesoamerican ethnography...It contains the largest catalog of Mexican paper figures ever put in print." --American Anthropologist. 354 pages, color and black-and-white illustrations.