Research as return: what museums hold, what communities remember, and what practice can do between them.
Ritual Return: the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca
A practice-based rematriation of the manuscript known as the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer — renaming, reimagining and returning it through facsimiles, ceremony, 3D modelling and intercultural workshops between Liverpool and Puebla. PhD thesis, 2025; exhibition at World Museum Liverpool, 2025; ongoing.
The project · Explore the 3D model · Mesoamerican Futurisms
Digital & IP Restitution of Mesoamerican Manuscripts
A research programme in development with the University of Warwick, the GLAM-E Lab (Exeter) and INAH Puebla: restitution frameworks for digitised ancient manuscripts — who owns the scan, the model, the name? (£300k AHRC bid under review.)
Way(s) We Remember
Graphic ethnography of Mexican kinship and intergenerational storytelling. Published in Anthropology & Aging; AVA Award commendation.
José Sherwood González 