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Author : John B. Glass
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aztec Chronology in the Codex of la Magdalena Mixiuca written by John B. Glass and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816518869
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)
Download or read book History and Mythology of the Aztecs written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great documents of colonial Mexico, the Codex Chimalpopoca chronicles the rise of Aztec civilization and preserves the mythology on which it was based. Its two complementary texts, Annals of Cuauhtitlan and Legend of the Suns, record the pre-CortŽsian history of the Valley of Mexico together with firsthand versions of that region's myths. Of particular interest are the stories of the hero-god Quetzalcoatl, for which the Chimalpopoca is the premier source. John Bierhorst's work is the first major scholarship on the Codex Chimalpopoca in more than forty years. His is the first edition in English and the first in any language to include the complete text of the Legend of the Suns. The precise, readable translation not only contributes to the study of Aztec history and literature but also makes the codex an indispensable reference for Aztec cultural topics, including land tenure, statecraft, the role of women, the tribute system, warfare, and human sacrifice.
Author : Bernardino de Sahagún
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Florentine Codex written by Bernardino de Sahagún and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lori Boornazian Diel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477316752
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Codex Mexicanus written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus, includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars, European medical astrology, a genealogy of the Tenochca royal house, and an annals history of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan and early colonial Mexico City, among other topics. Though filled with intriguing information, the Mexicanus has long defied a comprehensive scholarly analysis, surely due to its disparate contents. In this pathfinding volume, Lori Boornazian Diel presents the first thorough study of the entire Codex Mexicanus that considers its varied contents in a holistic manner. She provides an authoritative reading of the Mexicanus’s contents and explains what its creation and use reveal about native reactions to and negotiations of colonial rule in Mexico City. Diel makes sense of the codex by revealing how its miscellaneous contents find counterparts in Spanish books called Reportorios de los tiempos. Based on the medieval almanac tradition, Reportorios contain vast assortments of information related to the issue of time, as does the Mexicanus. Diel masterfully demonstrates that, just as Reportorios were used as guides to living in early modern Spain, likewise the Codex Mexicanus provided its Nahua audience a guide to living in colonial New Spain.
Author : Bernardino (de Sahagún)
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ISBN 13 : 9781607811626
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Florentine Codex written by Bernardino (de Sahagún) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Sahagún's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of Sahagún's Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished contributions in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Written between 1540 and 1585, the Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian Library's collections since at least 1791) is the most authoritative statement we have of the Aztecs' lifeways and traditions ... The Florentine Codex is divided by subject area into twelve books and includes over 2,000 illustrations drawn by Nahua artists in the sixteenth century."--Publisher's website.
Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292749023
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico written by Ross Hassig and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Florentine Codex written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gisele Díaz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486155218
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Codex Borgia written by Gisele Díaz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First republication of remarkable repainting of great Mexican codex, dated to ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs. Introduction.
Author : John F. Schwaller
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806164107
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Fifteenth Month written by John F. Schwaller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated with a different set of rituals. Panquetzaliztli, the fifteenth month, dedicated to the national god Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird on the Left), was significant for its proximity to the winter solstice, and for the fact that it marked the beginning of the season of warfare. In The Fifteenth Month, John F. Schwaller offers a detailed look at how the celebrations of Panquetzaliztli changed over time and what these changes reveal about the history of the Aztecs. Drawing on a variety of sources, Schwaller deduces that prior to the rise of the Mexica in 1427, an earlier version of the month was dedicated to the god Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror), a war and trickster god. The Mexica shifted the dedication to their god, developed a series of ceremonies—including long-distance running and human sacrifice—that would associate him with the sun, and changed the emphasis of the celebration from warfare alone to a combination of trade and warfare, since merchants played a significant role in Mexica statecraft. Further investigation shows how the resulting festival commemorated several important moments in Mexica history, how it came to include ceremonies associated with the winter solstice, and how it reflected a calendar reform implemented shortly before the arrival of the Spanish. Focused on one of the most important months in the Mexica year, Schwaller’s work marks a new methodology in which traditional sources for Mexica culture, rather than being interrogated for their specific content, are read for their insights into the historical development of the people. Just as Christmas re-creates the historic act of the birth of Jesus for Christians, so, The Fifteenth Month suggests, Panquetzaliztli was a symbolic re-creation of events from Mexica myths and history.
Author : Jeanette Favrot Peterson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477318429
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Florentine Codex written by Jeanette Favrot Peterson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex (1575–1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas. In this edited volume, experts from multiple disciplines analyze the manuscript’s bilingual texts and more than 2,000 painted images and offer fascinating, new insights on its twelve books. The contributors examine the “three texts” of the codex—the original Nahuatl, its translation into Spanish, and its painted images. Together, these constitute complementary, as well as conflicting, voices of an extended dialogue that occurred in and around Mexico City. The volume chapters address a range of subjects, from Nahua sacred beliefs, moral discourse, and natural history to the Florentine artists’ models and the manuscript’s reception in Europe. The Florentine Codex ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire.
Author : Charles E. Dibble
Publisher : Univ of Utah Pr
ISBN 13 : 9780874801248
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Codex en Cruz written by Charles E. Dibble and published by Univ of Utah Pr. This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. C. Christopher Couch
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Festival Cycle of the Aztec Codex Borbonicus written by N. C. Christopher Couch and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1985 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (BAR -S270, 1985)
Author : Bernardino de Sahagún
Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book General History of the Things of New Spain written by Bernardino de Sahagún and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written between 1540 and 1585, The Florentine Codex (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian Library's collections since at least 1791) is the most authoritative statement we have of the Aztecs' lifeways and traditions--a rich and intimate yet panoramic view of a doomed people.
Author : María Sten
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Codices of México and Their Extraordinary History written by María Sten and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernardino (de Sahagún)
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ISBN 13 : 9781607811923
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Florentine Codex written by Bernardino (de Sahagún) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florentine Codex is the common name given to a 16th century ethnographic research project in Mesoamerica by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún. Bernardino originally titled it: La Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana (in English: the General History of the Things of New Spain). Still in existence today are sources of knowledge and information about the cultures of Mesoamerica (known as codices) which were written before 1532. When the Spanish decided to take over Mexico in the 16th century, there were many Mayan and Aztec tomes in existence, however, today there are only 3 authentic Maya tomes still intact. One such tome is the Florentine Codex, which is a set of 12 books that detail many of the inner workings of the Mayan Empire. Bernardino de Sahagun was a Franciscan friar who arrived in Mexico with the intention of converting the native population to Christianity. He intended for his research to describe the ancient cultures of this New World and to create a vocabulary of Nahuatl, the Aztec language. His research took place over several decades and the original manuscript consisted of 2400 pages, spread out over twelve books. --Website.
Author : Lori Boornazian Diel
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Aztec Codices written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life. This book focuses on two main areas: Aztec history and Aztec culture. Early chapters deal with Aztec history-the first providing a visual record of the story of the Aztec migration and search for their destined homeland of Tenochtitlan, and the second exploring how the Aztecs built their empire. Later chapters explain life in the Aztec world, focusing on Aztec conceptions of time and religion, the Aztec economy, the life cycle, and daily life. The book ends with an account of the fall of the empire, as illustrated by Aztec artists. With sections concerning a wide variety of topics-from the Aztec pantheon to war, agriculture, childhood, marriage, diet, justice, the arts, and sports, among many others-readers will gain an expansive understanding of life in the Aztec world.
Author : Gordon Whittaker
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500776342
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs written by Gordon Whittaker and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, building the first cities of the Western Hemisphere and developing writing systems that could rival those of the Eastern Hemisphere in their creativity and efficiency. The Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs reigned over one of the greatest imperial civilizations the Americas had ever seen, and up until now their intricate and visually stunning hieroglyphs have been overlooked in the story of writing. In this innovative volume Gordon Whittaker provides the reader with everything they need to know to appreciate and understand Aztec hieroglyphs: a step-by-step, illustrated guide of how to read Aztec glyphs; an explanation of the special features of this writing system in comparison to others from around the globe; the story of how this enigmatic language has been deciphered; a tour through Aztec history as recorded in hieroglyphic codices; and demonstrations of how the writing system was adapted to transliterate Spanish words during the Conquest.
