Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The Aztec city-state of Texcoco was an important polity in what is commonly referred to as the Aztec empire. It has not been studied as intensely as Tenochtitlan,but it has provoked a number of debates concerning the role it played in the history of the highland basin.This volume was motivated by these debates. In April 2010, the University of North Texas hosted a symposium at which a group of international scholars discussed their research on Texcoco and began identifying directions for further research. Revised and expanded versions of most of the papers presented at that meeting appear in this volume. We thank all those who participated in the symposium, including those whose work we were unable to include here: Frederic Hicks, Eduardo Corona Sánchez, Isabel Bueno, Patrick Lesbre, José Contel, Jeanne Gillespie, Patrick Hajovsky, Eduardo Douglas,Joe Campbell,John Sullivan,Lloyd Anderson, and Bruce Willis. Wells Fargo Bank awarded us a grant that allowed us to bring to the symposium scholars from Spain, France, Mexico,and the United States.We also received support from the officers and staff of the University of North Texas: Warren Burggren, provost and vice president of academic affairs; Vish Prasad, vice provost for research and economic development; Kenneth W. Sewell, associate vice president for research; Kathryn Cullivan, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and the chairs of the Departments of Anthropology, Art Education and Art History, and History. We are also ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii very grateful for the support of these colleagues: Marie-Christine Koop, chair of the Department of World Languages and Literatures; Mary Hardcastle, Maria Muñíz, Martin Price, Connie Martinez, Pierina Beckman, and Jiyoung Yoon.Finally,special thanks to Cara Guziak and Belinda Reyes,who provided administrative support. Without the contributions of all of these people, this volume would not have been possible. TEXCOCO ...