John Monaghan is an anthropologist who lives and works in Norman, Oklahoma.

In this portrait he discusses how he became interested in the Mixtec of ancient and contemporary Oaxaca, Mexico, and describes his research on the ecology, environment and trade relations in the Mixteca, and how the Mixtec codices play a significant role in bridging the past with the present.

Topics:
Biography
Social Organization
Exchange
Landscape
Codices

Transcripts:
English
Spanish

Photo Captions/Credits

Library Links:
John Monaghan, "The Feathered Serpent in Oaxaca: An Approach to the Study of the Mixtec Codices"

John Monaghan, "Performance and the Structure of the Mixtec Codices"

John Monaghan, "Sacrifice, Death, and the Origins of Agriculture in the Codex Vienna"

John Monaghan, "The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing"