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Book Synopsis Aztlan Origin and Ethnology by : Alfredo A. Figueroa
Download or read book Aztlan Origin and Ethnology written by Alfredo A. Figueroa and published by Alfredo A. Figueroa. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aztlán is the mystical place of origin of the Mexica people. It is beyond a mere physical location. Aztlán has become a metaphoric, geographic, historical and spiritual home to millions of Indigenous people of North America.Aztlán was in fact mystical and not mythical as portrayed by the established mainstream teachings. Historians and investigators were always looking for Aztlán in Mesoamerica. Aztlán remained elusive primarily due to lack of scientific cross-reference study of the Mexica codex, artifacts and sacred ruins from Mexico with the lower Colorado River Basin intaglios, geoglyphs, petroglyphs, pictographs, mountains images, equinoxes, solstices, local Native songs language and folklore.
Download or read book Aztlán written by Charles River and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Who were the Aztec and from whence-it is answered in their mythico-histories. Like all other such origin myths, these differ in detail, not in basic content...And so, the Aztec they found in a cave the Hummingbird Wizard, the famous Huitzilopochtli...The idol gave them advice. It sounded well: wander, look for lands, avoid any large-scale fighting, send pioneers ahead, have them plant maize, when the harvest is ready move up to it; keep me, Huitzilopochtli, always with you, carrying me like a banner, feed me on human hearts torn from the recently sacrificed...All of which the Aztec did." - Victor W. Von Hagen From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered today for their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as being fierce conquerors of the Valley of Mexico who often engaged in human sacrifice rituals. Unlike the Mayans, the Aztecs are not widely viewed or remembered with nuance, in part because their own leader burned extant Aztec writings and rewrote a mythologized history explaining his empire's dominance less than a century before the Spanish arrived. Naturally, Cortés and other Spaniards depicted the Aztecs as savages greatly in need of conversion to Catholicism, so while the Mayans are remembered for their astronomy, numeral system, and calendar, the Aztecs have primarily been remembered in a far narrower way, despite continuing to be a source of pride to Mexicans through the centuries. As a result, even though the Aztecs continue to interest people across the world centuries after their demise, it has fallen on archaeologists and historians to try to determine the actual history, culture, and lives of the Aztecs from the beginning to the end, relying on excavations, primary accounts, and more. One of the most elusive topics about the Aztecs concern their origins, in particular the city of Aztlán, which is said to be the place from which the Aztecs came. To this day, the physical location of Aztlán has yet to be found, leading to debates about where it could have been, or even whether it was simply a mythological location. For centuries, historians and archaeologists have studied ancient documents and codices in an attempt to physically locate this ancestral city, while other scholars maintain that Aztlán is nothing but an origin myth, and there is not enough evidence in the sources to suggest that it was ever a real place. Many theories about Aztlán have been proposed throughout the centuries, some strongly based on information provided by historical and archaeological evidence. Others are based purely on conjecture. There are even some who have suggested that Aztlán corresponds to the mythical Atlantis based on a series of similarities in the descriptions of both places. For example, Plato described Atlantis as a city built over a lake, just as Aztlán was said to be. Aztlán: The History and Mystery of the Aztec's Ancestral Home examines what is known and unknown about the Aztec's origins, from the mythological story explaining the Aztec's journey to Tenochtitlan to the search for Aztlán. Along with pictures and a bibliography for further reading, you will learn about Aztlán like never before.
Book Synopsis Chicana! by : Alfredo Acosta Figueroa
Download or read book Chicana! written by Alfredo Acosta Figueroa and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figueroa provides in 'Chicana!' as he does in his previous works, "Ancient Footprints of the Colorado River," and "Aztlan: Origin and Ethnology," a factual substantiation of the origin of the term. Remi Simeon's Nahuatl Dictionary, has 'Chicana' with a different spelling: 'Chicaua,' meaning to enforce, solid, or fortified. The meaning of 'Chicana' is the same in Nahuatl. The temple walls in Mexico are the 'Chicana,' the defenders of the Creator's spiritual centers. Therefore, the term 'Chicana' did not originate in modern times, nor was it coined during the Civil Rights Movement. During the Chicano Movement, and the struggle to regain indigenous roots and seek the return to Aztlan, "Chicana" was more prevalent. Chicanos began to emulate their African American brothers in demanding their civil rights. During the 50s through the 70s, when the modern day resurgence of the Chicano Movement was at its peak, Chicanos became the vanguards of modern day struggles, demanding equality and union rights, constitutional, human and civil rights. The term Chicano can be found in numerous corridos from the early 1900s. Corridos (folklore) were the main source of oral history and entertainment and related stories of hardships, events, places, and tragedies. The term 'Chicana' can be found written on Spanish Maps of the continent of Anahuac, since 1556. The Bolognini Zaltieri Map has 'Chicana' located approximately where Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico, is located on the Gulf of California. In the Aztec/Mexica cosmic archetype traditional culture, the term 'Chicana,' is associated with Mother Earth since time immemorial. The origin of the term 'Chicana' originates with the Creation Story, centered on the sacred sites located in the Lower Colorado River Basin Valleys, Palo Verde/Parker Valleys, and on the Big Maria Mountain Range (Coatepetl in Nahuatl) meaning snake mountain. The Ch- in 'Chicana' is articulated /ch/ in Spanish, and in Nahuatl it is written with an X for Xicana, Deciphered in Nahuatl, Xicana is 'Xi-xi-' means woman's breast, '-ca' means -calli/earth/house, and '-na' means the beginning of life on earth. Therefore, 'Chicana/Xicana' means the woman's womb, where life begins.
Book Synopsis Return to Aztlan by : Danna A. Levin Rojo
Download or read book Return to Aztlan written by Danna A. Levin Rojo and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the “Kingdom of Nuevo México” had existed as an imaginary world—and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards’ ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors sought in the 1500s, it seems, was what the native Mesoamerican Indians who took part in north-going conquest expeditions also sought: a return to the Aztecs’ mythic land of origin, Aztlan. Employing long-overlooked historical and anthropological evidence, Danna A. Levin Rojo reveals how ideas these natives held about their own past helped determine where Spanish explorers would go and what they would conquer in the northwest frontier of New Spain—present-day New Mexico and Arizona. Return to Aztlan thus remaps an extraordinary century during which, for the first time, Western minds were seduced by Native American historical memories. Levin Rojo recounts a transformation—of an abstract geographic space, the imaginary world of Aztlan, into a concrete sociopolitical place. Drawing on a wide variety of early maps, colonial chronicles, soldier reports, letters, and native codices, she charts the gradual redefinition of native and Spanish cultural identity—and shows that the Spanish saw in Nahua, or Aztec, civilization an equivalence to their own. A deviation in European colonial naming practices provides the first clue that a transformation of Aztlan from imaginary to concrete world was taking place: Nuevo México is the only place-name from the early colonial period in which Europeans combined the adjective “new” with an American Indian name. With this toponym, Spaniards referenced both Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the indigenous metropolis whose destruction made possible the birth of New Spain itself, and Aztlan, the ancient Mexicans’ place of origin. Levin Rojo collects additional clues as she systematically documents why and how Spaniards would take up native origin stories and make a return to Aztlan their own goal—and in doing so, overturns the traditional understanding of Nuevo México as a concept and as a territory. A book in the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Book Synopsis The Aztec World by : Field Museum of Natural History
Download or read book The Aztec World written by Field Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history, this book covers such contemporary concerns as the environment and agriculture, health and disease, women and social status, and urbanism. It also discusses the effects of European conquests on Aztec culture and society, in addition to offering modern perspectives on their civilization. The text is accompanied by colorful illustrations and photos of artifacts from the best collections in Mexico, including those of the Templo Mayor Museum and the National Museum of Anthropology, both in Mexico City, as well as pieces from archaeological sites and virtual reconstructions of lost artwork. The book accompanies an exhibition at The Field Museum.
Book Synopsis Joaquin Murrieta by : Alfredo A. Figueroa
Download or read book Joaquin Murrieta written by Alfredo A. Figueroa and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfredo Acosta Figueroa has written an entirely new history about Joaquin, one that draws on the memories and documents of his family and Joaquin's descendants. This history is deeply personal. We learn details never before published. The legacy and truth of Joaquin continues through the International Association of the Descendants of Joaquin Murrieta.
Book Synopsis Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory by : Frances F. Berdan
Download or read book Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory written by Frances F. Berdan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, encompassing topics of history, economy, social life, political relations, and religious beliefs and ceremonies. It offers an integrated view of Aztec life, grappling with thorny issues such as human sacrifice and the controversial role of up-and-coming merchants. The book meshes data, methods, and theories from a variety of disciplines including archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, and art history.
Book Synopsis Aztln and Arcadia by : Roberto Ramon Lint Sagarena
Download or read book Aztln and Arcadia written by Roberto Ramon Lint Sagarena and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These "invented traditions" had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States' national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in the footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In contrast, Californios--Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os--stressed deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage. Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.
Book Synopsis The Sources and Authenticity of the History of the Ancient Mexicans by : Paul Radin
Download or read book The Sources and Authenticity of the History of the Ancient Mexicans written by Paul Radin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Primitive Aryans of America by : Thomas Stewart Denison
Download or read book The Primitive Aryans of America written by Thomas Stewart Denison and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Road to Aztlan by : Virginia M. Fields
Download or read book The Road to Aztlan written by Virginia M. Fields and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the major exhibition, 'The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland' explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico long before they were separated by an international border. The book and accompanying exhibition view Aztlan as a metaphoric centre and allegorical place of origin for the various peoples of the Southwest and Mexico. Cultural interactions between the two areas span two millennia, beginning with maize cultivation, which spread north from Mexico around BC 1200. The book also investigates the relationship between myth and history as expressed in art and material culture of the region's inhabitants over time and the relationship and continuities of cultural practices over the course of the pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary eras. Crucial to these changing relationships are aspects of tradition and innovation within cultures as people sought to negotiate, maintain, and redefine their identities in the face of social disruption.
Book Synopsis Descendants of El Siglo de Oro Y Aztlan by : Atilano A. Valencia
Download or read book Descendants of El Siglo de Oro Y Aztlan written by Atilano A. Valencia and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the cultural heritage of Mexican Americans beginning with the Aztecs' pre-Columbian migration to central Mexico.
Book Synopsis Latest Aztec Discoveries by : Guy E. Powell
Download or read book Latest Aztec Discoveries written by Guy E. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bonds of Blood by : Caroline Dodds Pennock
Download or read book Bonds of Blood written by Caroline Dodds Pennock and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative study of the everyday life of the Aztecs.
Download or read book Emergency written by Edgar Garcia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine short essays exploring the K’iche’ Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world’s creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the Popol Vuh—while implicated in deep social crisis—nonetheless insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social, political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into creativity and world creation.
Book Synopsis The Sources and Authenticity of the History of the Ancient Mexicans by : Paul Radin
Download or read book The Sources and Authenticity of the History of the Ancient Mexicans written by Paul Radin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Aztecs by : Dirk R. Van Tuerenhout
Download or read book The Aztecs written by Dirk R. Van Tuerenhout and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time? This volume looks at the essential elements in the Aztecs' rise, fall, and enduring influence. A wealth of new archaeological findings and interpretations has sparked a richer understanding of the Aztecs, dispelling many myths. The Aztecs: New Perspectives looks at evidence from ancient, colonial, and modern times to present a contemporary, well-rounded portrait of this Mesoamerican culture. Like no other volume, it examines daily Aztec life both at, and away from, the seats of power, revealing the Aztecs to be accomplished farmers, astronomers, mathematicians, and poets—as well as ruthless warriors and tireless builders of empire. The Aztecs ranges from the mysterious origins of the Aztlan tribe to the glory years of empire and ultimate defeat. But the story doesn't end there. To present the most complete picture possible, the author goes to the most fascinating source available—the living ancestors who keep the Aztec language and many aspects of their ancient worldview alive. There is no better volume for exploring the realities of Aztec life as it was, and as it influences our world today.
