Burning Water: Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico
Description
Laurette Séjourné (1911 - 2003) was a Mexican archeologist and ethnologist best known for her study of the civilizations of Teotihuacan and the Aztecs and her theories concerning the Mesoamerican culture hero, Quetzalcoatl. Born in Italy, she emigrated to France and then left occupied France in exile for Mexico, in 1941. There, she became a naturalized Mexican citizen and married another exile, the Russian novelist and revolutionary known as Victor Serge (d.1947). Soon after his death, she joined the Mexican Communist Party. Later, she remarried Arnaldo Orfila, director of the...
ISBN(s)
0394732766, 9780394732763
