Araceli Rojas

Araceli studied Archaeology in Cholula, Mexico. She has pursued her curiosity on the meanings of signs and symbols on the precolonial pictorial books of Mexico, with calendrical, religious and divinatory content. For her PhD she investigated the on-going use of a 260 day calendar among the Ayöök (Mixe) people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Araceli has collaborated in interdisciplinary projects which aim at rescuing the course of rivers and streams in Mexico by trying to recover ancient water management techniques and views. She has worked as lecturer, researcher and Assistant Professor in Mexico, Leiden, Erlangen and Warsaw. Her work has attempted to provide other ways of looking at Mesoamerican art, writing and divination, trying to move away from colonial lenses, and learning from Indigenous peoples present wisdoms and ways of being in this world.

• Rojas, Araceli (in press) Lectura de un tonalamatl: Un estudio sobre el llamado Códice Mictlan o Laud.
• Rojas, Araceli (2014) El tiempo y la sabiduría: un calendario sagrado entre los ayöök de Oaxaca. CONACULTA, Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, Fundación Harp Helú, Oaxaca.
• Rojas, Araceli (2025) A’joot: About Ethics, Rights and Values Spoken from the Stomach and Heart. International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 7(1): 10-30.
• Rojas, Araceli (2024) On Mesoamerican Literacies: Two Examples of How the Ayöök Read the World. Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice 6(1): 46-62.
• Rojas, Araceli (2016) Casting Maize Seeds in an Ayöök Community: An Approach to the Study of Divination in Mesoamerica. Ancient Mesoamerica 27(2):461-478.
• Rojas, Araceli and Nahuel Beccan Davila (2020) Studying Ancient Water Management in Monte Albán, Mexico, in order to Solve Water Issues, Improve Urban Living, and Protect Heritage in the Present. In Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage, Past, Present and Future, Carola Hein (ed.), 58-77. Springer, Cham.
• Rojas, Araceli (2020) Notes on the Manufacture, Colours and Biography of Codex Laud. Unpublished manuscript at the Head of Conservation and Collection Care. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Weston Library, Oxford, United Kingdom.