Author: Maarten JansenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004193588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts
Author: Maarten JansenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004193588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
The Codex López Ruiz
Author: Mary Elizabeth SmithPublisher: Vanderbilt University Publications in Anthropology
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Stories in Red and Black
Author: Elizabeth Hill BoonePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292783124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today. This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual "language" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.
Sounding Images
Author: Sander MacquoyCodex Tulane, the Most Complete Original Mixtec Pictorial Manuscript in the United States, a Treasure of the Department of the Middle American Research
Author: Codex Bodley
Author: Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas JansenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781851240951
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Codex Bodley has long been recognized as one of the most important Mixtec manuscripts. Painted shortly before the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1521), in the Mixtec region (state of Oaxaca), it is an excellent example of native Mixtec pictorial historiography in all its complexity. Because of its detailed information on genealogical relationships and dated events, it is a fundamental source for the study of precolonial Mixtec writing and history, from approximately 900 AD till the Spanish conquest (1521).For the first time, the entire manuscript is reproduced in a handy, single volume format. The commentary, based on many years of research on this manuscript and related documents, both in archives and in the Mixtec region itself, makes it possible to read the figurative paintings as a narrative text. Beginning with the history of the manuscript the author then discusses the main characteristics of Mixtec pictography before turning to the narrative of the manuscript, in a page-by-page explanatory reading of the pictograms and their significance. Highly illustrated, this is an essential text for all readers with an interest in pre-colonial Mexican history, art, and culture.
Tlacuilolli
Author: Karl Anton NowotnyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806136530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
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.
Time and the Ancestors
Author: Maarten JansenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004340521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing
Author: Isabel LaackPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004392017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Laack’s study presents an innovative interpretation of Aztec religion and art of writing. She explores the Nahua sense of reality from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion and analyzes Indigenous semiotics and embodied meaning in Mesoamerican pictorial writing.
Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description