Beyond Solitaire

Episode 42 - Jonathan Truitt on Games of Colonial Mesoamerica

May 31, 2021 Liz Davidson Season 3 Episode 42
Beyond Solitaire
Episode 42 - Jonathan Truitt on Games of Colonial Mesoamerica
Show Notes

Jonathan Truitt, Professor of Latin American History and Director of Center for Learning Through Games and Simulations, joins Liz on the podcast to talk about gaming in Mexico during the colonial period. 

Center for Learning Through Games: https://www.cmich.edu/colleges/class/Centers/CLGS/Pages/default.aspx

Some Bibliography: 

Cohen, Thomas M., Jay T. Harrison, David Rex Galindo. The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. (Forthcoming.) 

Kendall, Timothy. Patolli: A Game of Ancient Mexico. Belmont, MA, Kirk Game Company,  1980. 

Ore, Oystein. Cardano: The Gambling Scholar. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. 

Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. 2nd  Rev. Ed. 13 vols.Ed. and Trans. by Arthur J.O. Anderson & Charles E. Dibble. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1970-1982.  

Voorhies, Barbara ed., Prehistoric Games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. 

___. “Games and Other Amusements of the Ancient Mesoamericans,” Mexicolore.  

http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/home/games-and-other-amusements-of-the-ancient-mesoamericans accessed: 22 Oct 2018 

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