Flower Worlds

The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas.Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past.

Michael D. Mathiowetz is a lecturer at University of California, Riverside. His research is focused on the archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology of Indigenous societies in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including the art, religion/ritual, and nature of pre-Hispanic interregional interaction.
Andrew D. Turner is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. His research focuses primarily on art, identity, and cross-cultural interaction in ancient Central Mexico.