Jill Furst is an art historian who lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In this portrait she discusses how as a young college student she became interested in the peoples and cultures of colonial and contemporary Mexico and describes her research on the Spanish and their relationship to Mexican texts, her methodology for conducting research, and the spread of Aztec culture.

Topics:
Biography
Methodology
Natural History
The Spaniards
Uto-Aztecans

Transcripts:
English
Spanish

Photo Captions/Credits

Library Links:
Jill Leslie Furst, "The Tree-Birth Tradition in the Mixteca, Mexico"

Jill Leslie Furst, "Skeletonization in Mixtec Art: A Re-evaluation"

Jill Leslie Furst, "The Lords of 'Place of the Ascending Serpent': Dynastic Succession on the Nuttall Obverse"

Jill Leslie Furst, "Mixtec Narrative Conventions and Traditions: Problems in Defining the Codex Nuttall as Mixtec"