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Mesolore is a bilingual cyber center and community of scholars and students that offers interactive primary documents and pedagogic resources about Mesoamerica’s past and present.
Mesolore contains all of the elements of a great learning experience—from lectures by leading experts to debates and tutorials by scholars in the field to exquisitely rendered primary and secondary sources. There is an Atlas, Glossary, and Index as well, to help you navigate the material. Mesolore’s dynamic, interdisciplinary content can enliven your teaching and your student’s learning of history, anthropology, archaeology, Spanish language and culture, art history and even Mesoamerican biology and algebra.
Mesolore was developed at Brown University in collaboration with Prolarti Enterprises, LLC, and with funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Davis Educational Foundation and the Ford Foundation. During its many years of testing, Mesolore has received broad critical acclaim from university professors and high school teachers across the country.
What an exciting and impressive achievement.
William Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
While there are several interesting surveys of Mesoamerican history and culture in book form, there has been to date nothing quite like this introduction to the primary documents, fundamental questions, and classic scholarly articles in the field. Those who want a linear narrative history will be disappointed, but the compensation is the richest tapestry now available to the student of the stuff from which those linear narratives are crafted.
Rex Koontz, University of Houston, Hispanic American Historical Review
[O]ne only needs ten minutes with [Mesolore] to see how useful it could be as a didactic tool... In general, the editors are to be congratulated on the thoroughness of their research and the skill with which the project has been compiled. The program is beautifully and elegantly designed and extremely easy to use. It seems very much up to date in terms of the scholarly development of the field, and an impressive roster of scholars has contributed to its depth and variety.
Matthew Restall, The Americas:A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Culture
I finally [spent] a pleasant afternoon with Mesolore and I wanted to let you know personally what an excellent job you did with it. I shall sing its praises across the Americas and around the world!
Anthony Aveni, Colgate University
Mexico's deeply grained indigenous history that runs parallel to the national narrative of Spaniards, Mestizos, and other Mexicans begins with MESOLORE. Thisis a work of tremendous historical and anthropological sophistication. It is possible for the viewer-reader to see and hear indigenous voices, but those voices only have meaning because they are explained, analyzed, emphasized, and given context by the editors.
William H. Beezley
Liza Bakewell is a writer and anthropologist. She is the Director of the Mesolore Project and Assistant Professor of Research at the Center for Latin American Studies, Brown University. Her research focuses on language and gender, language and culture, materiality, image acts, art and artists. She is author of Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun (W. W. Norton, 2010) and co-author of the CD-ROM Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture (Scholarly Resources, Rowman & Littlefield 2001). She has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (1987, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2008), Ford Foundation (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000), National Edowment for the Humanities (2008-2010), and the Fulbright Program (1986, 1987, 2008-09).
Byron Hamann is a doctoral candidate in the departments of History and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research centers on early modern Europe, pre-Hispanic and early modern Mesoamerica, and the role of the inquisitions and archives in social transformations. He is coauthor of the CD ROM Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture and project manager for the DVD-web resource Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America 1520-1820.
