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In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.
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4e de couverture: La vision aztèque du monde a favorisé le développement de techniques divinatoires censées conjurer un destin trop rigoureux, déterminé par le signe sous lequel chaque individu naissait. La tendance à interroger l'avenir persiste chez les Indiens du Mexique contemporain et témoigne de la permanence de ces conceptions. Confronter les témoignages des chroniqueurs et les observations des ethnologues est ainsi l'un des moyens de pénétrer la mentalité indigène : certains rites actuels éclairent en effet le symbolisme des manuscrits pictographiques précolombiens. Comme leur littérature en porte témoignage, les Aztèques ont développé un type de société en accord avec leurs conceptions religieuses et philosophiques, empreint d'un fatalisme et d'une peur eschatologique que seul le recours au sacrifice humain pouvait apaiser autrefois, et qui aujourd'hui semble trouver un écho dans la fête des morts.
Aztèques --- Cosmogonie --- Coutumes et pratiques religieuses --- Divination --- Religion aztèque --- Rites et cérémonies --- Aztecs --- Aztec mythology --- Religion --- Rites and ceremonies.
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"In the aftermath of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Franciscan monk Andrés de Olmos was tasked with gathering and compiling knowledge of Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture into massive pictorial encyclopedias. Combining European traditions of gathering and organizing with indigenous knowledge, these books' primary purpose was evangelical. Only nine of these original encyclopedias, written between 1533 and 1581 in the early years following Spanish conquest, still survive: the Codices Borbonicus, Mendoza, Telleriano-Remensis, Río, Magliabechiano, Tudelo, and Florentine (as well as two personal histories of the conquest written by Spaniards). These books covered information on Aztec society, cosmology and calendars, economics, and imperial history for the use of Spanish authorities as they navigated the coalescence of their control of the New World. Although altered and influenced by Spanish bookmaking traditions, these texts are sources of important information about Aztec society before the conquest. Boone sees this work as a culmination of years of research to understand this period and the process of creating these types of books. She studies how information was gathered and influenced by European and indigenous traditions with peoples from both groups collaborating on their authorship, then moves to understanding and comparing the overall intents of individual books in this tradition, and finally looks at how the images themselves display and preserve, or not, artistic traditions from both sides"--Provided by publisher.
Aztecs --- Picture-writing --- Nahuatl language --- History --- Sources. --- Writing --- History. --- First contact with Europeans --- First contact with other peoples. --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Inscriptions --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Nahuas --- History and criticism --- Authorship --- Uto-Aztecan languages --- Aztec language --- Mexican language
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The dictionary expands on the original idea of Karttunen and Lockhart to map the usage of loans in Nahuatl, by using a much larger and diversified corpus of sources, and by including contextual use, missing in earlier studies. Most importantly, these sources enrich the colonial corpus with modern data – significantly expanding on our knowledge on language continuity and change.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Nahuatl language --- Spanish language --- Latin language --- Linguistics --- Influence on Nahuatl --- Nahuatl. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Aztec language --- Mexican language --- Uto-Aztecan languages --- Nahuatl, Mesoamerican Languages, Historical Linguistics, Dictionary.
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Between 200 and 1200 CE Central Mexico was the setting for the formation and disintegration of two states, Teotihuacan and Tula. At their peaks, both urban centers established distant ties throughout Mesoamerica. The nature of their relations has been the focus of analysis and debate for decades. In this study, Peter Jimenez uses the latest advances in world-systems analysis to study interaction networks in West Mexico from the early Classic to Post-classic period. He demonstrates how the archaeological record contains empirical evidence for the impact of global processes on local developments, in detail, in realms, and at spatial scales, which are revealed here for the first time. His examination of West Mexico's relations to the core states of Central Mexico also underscores the critical role that the semi-periphery played in overall world-system configuration and operation in ancient Mesoamerica.
Indians of Mexico --- Social archaeology --- Aztecs --- Archaeology --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Nahuas --- Commerce --- History --- Antiquities. --- Methodology --- Mexico
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