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Author : Bernardino (de Sahagún)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Aztec calendar
ISBN : UVA:X000215748
Author : Arthur J. O. Anderson,Charles E. Dibble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015001566887
Author : Bernardino (de Sahagún)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Aztec astrology
ISBN : OCLC:495187838
Author : Bernardino (de Sahagún)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Aztec calendar
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010254022
Author : Benjamin Keen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0813515726
Encompass the sweep of changing Western thought on the Aztecs from Cortes to the present.
Author : Bernardino de Sahagún
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Aztec gods
ISBN : 087480082X
Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292797956
This illuminating study offers a radical new understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history. Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history. Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones.
Author : Molly H. Bassett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780292762992
“Bassett at last provides a path to understand better the specifically Aztec characteristics of the teteoh and their ritual ‘embodiments.’” —Ethnohistory Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a “god” (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion—teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)—to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world. In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ritual studies to explore what ritual practices such as human sacrifice and the manufacture of deity embodiments (including humans who became gods), material effigies, and sacred bundles meant to the Aztecs. She analyzes the Aztec belief that wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim during a sacred rite could transform a priest into an embodiment of a god or goddess, as well as how figurines and sacred bundles could become localized embodiments of gods. Without arguing for unbroken continuity between the Aztecs and modern speakers of Nahuatl, Bassett also describes contemporary rituals in which indigenous Mexicans who preserve costumbres (traditions) incorporate totiotzin (gods) made from paper into their daily lives. This research allows us to understand a religious imagination that found life in death and believed that deity embodiments became animate through the ritual binding of blood, skin, and bone.
Author : James M. Taggart
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292785731
First published in 1983, Nahuat Myth and Social Structure brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.
Author : William Arens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190281205
A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806182087
What role did indigenous peoples play in the Spanish conquest of Mexico? Ross Hassig explores this question in Mexico and the Spanish Conquest by incorporating primary accounts from the Indians of Mexico and revisiting the events of the conquest against the backdrop of the Aztec empire, the culture and politics of Mesoamerica, and the military dynamics of both sides. He analyzes the weapons, tactics, and strategies employed by both the Indians and the Spaniards, and concludes that the conquest was less a Spanish victory than it was a victory of Indians over other Indians, which the Spaniards were able to exploit to their own advantage. In this second edition of his classic work, Hassig incorporates new research in the same concise manner that made the original edition so popular and provides further explanations of the actions and motivations of Cortés, Moteuczoma, and other key figures. He also explores their impact on larger events and examines in greater detail Spanish military tactics and strategies.
Author : Karl Anton Nowotny
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0806136537
Appearing for the first time in English, Karl Anton Nowotny’s Tlacuilolli is a classic work of Mesoamerican scholarship. A concise analysis of the pre-Columbian Borgia Group of manuscripts, it is the only synthetic interpretation of divinatory and ritual codices from Mexico. Originally published in German and unavailable to any but the most determined scholars, Tlacuilolli has nevertheless formed the foundation for subsequent scholarly works on the codices. Its importance extends beyond the study of Mexican codices: Nowotny’s sophisticated reading of these manuscripts informs our understanding of Mesoamerican culture. Of particular importance are Nowotny’s corrections of errors in fact and interpretation in the Spanish edition of Eduard Seler’s commentary on the Borgia Group. George A. Everett and Edward B. Sisson have translated Nowotny’s masterwork into English while maintaining the flavor of the original German edition. To the core text they have added an extensive bibliography and constructed a framework of annotation that relates the principles in Tlacuilolli to current research. This edition includes a selection of eleven stunning full-color images chosen from the original catalog.
Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477318058
The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization; it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic texts, mythological discourses, and ritual narratives to translate the significance and meaning of the vibrant metaphors expressed in a variety of artifacts depicting deer and hunting. Charting the progression of deer as a key component of the Maya diet, especially for elites, to the coupling of deer and maize in the Maya worldview, The Beast Between reveals a close and long-term interdependence. Not only are deer depicted naturalistically in hunting and ritual scenes, but they are also ascribed with human attributes. This rich imagery reflects the many ways in which deer hunting was linked to status, sexuality, and war as part of a deeper process to ensure the regeneration of both agriculture and ancestry. Drawing on methodologies of art history, archaeology, and ethnology, this illuminating work is poised to become a key resource for multiple fields.
Author : Gabrielle Vail,Christine Hernández
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457184291
Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period. Remarkable similarities exist within the Maya tradition, even as new mythologies were introduced through contact with the Gulf Coast region and highland central Mexico. Vail and Hernández analyze the extant Maya codices within the context of later literary sources such as the Books of Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh, and the Códice Chimalpopoca to present numerous examples highlighting the relationship among creation mythology, rituals, and lore. Compiling and comparing Maya creation mythology with that of the Borgia codices from highland central Mexico, Re-Creating Primordial Time is a significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies and will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and comparative religions alike.
Author : David M. Carballo
Publisher : Oxford Studies in the Archaeol
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190251062
This volume examines the ways in which urbanisation and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico. It provides a materially informed history of religion and an archaeology of cities that considers religion as a generative force in societal change