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Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Tonalamatl of the Aubin Collection
Author: Turquois Mosaic Art in Ancient Mexiko
Author: Marshall H. SavillePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336826303X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1922.
Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico
Author: Marshall H. SavillePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This is an illustrated art history book describing in detail the work of the ancient people of Mexico. It was first published in 1922. Marshall Howard Saville (1867–1935) was an American archeologist, who also studied anthropology at Harvard. He became director of an important private museum in New York, the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation) to which the book was dedicated to thank the foundation for its assistance in making the publication of the book possible.
The Delineation of the Day-signs in the Aztec Manuscripts
Author: Thomas Talbot WatermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aztec calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Wood-carver's Art in Ancient Mexico
Author: Marshall Howard SavillePublisher:
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Category : Indian wood-carving
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Tonalamatl of the Aubin Collection
Author: Edward SelerPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A List of Books, Pamphlets and Maps Received at the Library of the Department of State, by Purchase, Exchange, and Gift, During the Period from ... to ... with References to Articles in Periodicals Relating to the Law of Nations, Diplomacy, and Political Science, Supplemented by a List of Periodicals and Newspapers Received
Author: United States. Department of State. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
A Study of Maya Art, Its Subject Matter and Historical Development
Author: Herbert Joseph SpindenPublisher:
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Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate
Author: Elizabeth Hill BoonePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292756569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.