Gabriel Mestre Arrioja

La Historia del Xoloitzcuintle en México

VALADEZ AR, – MESTRE AG,
Mexico ISBN 968-36- 6002-9, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Dolores Olmedo P Museum, Institute of Anthropological Research -UNAM, Chamber of Deputies 1999,
176 pages, 22 cms.

The book «La Historia del Xoloitzcuintle en México», by authors Raúl Valadéz Azúa and Gabriel Mestre Arrioja, gives an account of the pre-Hispanic past, the modernist present and the future prospects of this Mexican dog in its two different varieties. An extensive investigation through several states of Mexico, as well as different visits to the Balsas River Basin and the socio-cultural strip known as: Tierra Caliente in Guerrero. The edition was co-published by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the Institute of Anthropological Research (IIA), the Chamber of Deputies and the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum.

Xoloitzcuintle, del Enigma al Siglo XXI

VALADEZ AR, – MESTRE AG,
México ISBN 978-970-95499-0-4, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas – UNAM y ARTENACIÓN (2007 – 2008).

This book emerges as a direct response to Norman Pelham Wright’s 1960 book edited by the National Anthropology Institute in Mexico, entitled «El Enigma del Xoloitzcuintle» which was the promoter of many myths and misunderstandings about this special breed and which has cost so much recognition to the coated variety. Here we present a technical manual about the Xoloitzcuintle breed that describes it’s origins, its passage through the history of Mexico, scientific studies, the Xoloitcuintle Today, the foundation of the breed, Breed Standard, morphology, type, breeding, care, shows and associations. With an excellent selection of images, rarely seen.