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Merilee Grindle’s fascinating biography of Mexican-American anthropologist Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations, is a welcome sign that the field of Nutall studies is expanding.

This important figure is beginning to occupy her rightful place in history.

Nutall’s life and career of the provide a rich and fascinating subject that, to date, has gone largely underappreciated. Nuttall’s work, beginning in the 1880s and continuing until her death, helped shape the field of archaeology and the scientific study of the history of humankind in the Americas during the crucial period in which these disciplines were becoming professionalized.

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