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__Articles__
 * 1) Helen Perlstein Pollard and Shirley Gorenstein, “Agrarian Potential, Population, and the Tarascan State,” //Science// 209, no. 4453, New Series (July 11, 1980): 274-277.
 * 2) Paul Radin, “Maya, Nahuatl, and Tarascan Kinship Terms,” //American Anthropologist// 27, no. 1, New Series (January 1, 1925): 100-102.
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__**Books**__

 * 1) Jorge A. Suárez, //The Mesoamerican Indian languages// (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
 * 2) Munro S. Edmonson and Patricia A. Andrews, //Linguistics// (University of Texas Press, 1984).
 * 3) J. Benedict Warren, //The Conquest of Michoacan: The Spanish Domination of theTarascan Kingdom in Western Mexico, 1521-1530//, 1st ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985).
 * 4) Ralph Leon Beals and United States, //Cherán: A Sierra Tarascan Village//, Publication / Smithsonian Institution. Institute of SocialAnthropology no. 2 (Washington, D.C: U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1946).
 * 5) Robert Cooper West and United States, //Cultural Geography of the Modern Tarascan Area / by RobertC. West ; Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of State as a Project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation//, Publication / Smithsonian Institution. Institute of SocialAnthropology no. 7 (Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1948).
 * 6) George McClelland Foster and United States, //Empire’s Children: The People of Tzintzuntzan//, Publication / Smithsonian Institution. Institute of SocialAnthropology no. 6 (Mexico: Impr. Nuevo Mundo, 1948).
 * 7) //Factional Competition and Political Development in the Newworld//, New directions in archaeology (Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
 * 8) //Measures of Men; Ten Specialized Studies in Physical Anthropology in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies//, Middle American research series. Publication no. 7 (New Orleans: Department of Middle American Research, The Tulane University of Louisiana, 1936).
 * 9) Helen Perlstein Pollard, //Tariacuri’s Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State//, The Civilization of the American Indian series v. 209 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993).

__Videos__

 * 1) México Antiguo (Firm) and C/Producciones (Firm), //Fiesta De Muertos En México// (C/Producciones/México Antiguo, 2005).