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PURSUING PASSIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

Frances F. Berdan
Frances F. Berdan*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, California 92407-2318
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E-mail correspondence to: fberdan@csusb.edu
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Looking back, my intellectual life seems to have been a succession of passions, some small, some larger. It began with butterflies and eventually settled on myriad facets of the world of the Aztecs and the native people of colonial Mexico. This is how it happened.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , Spring 2015 , pp. 1 - 12
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