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In Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art , Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological contexts, historical sources and living cultural traditions, they shed light on central symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples, paying special attention to precolonial perceptions of time and the importance of ancestor worship. They decipher the meaning of the treasure deposited in Tomb 7 at Monte Albán (Oaxaca) and of artworks such as the Roll of the New Fire (Selden Roll), the Aztec religious sculptures and, last but not least, the mysterious chapter of temple scenes from the Book of Night and Wind (Codex Borgia).

Aztec art. --- Mixtec art. --- Ritual in art. --- Art, Mixtec --- Mixtec Indians --- Art, Mexican --- Art, Aztec --- Aztecs --- Art --- Regional & national history --- History of the Americas

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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.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl. --- Aztec painting. --- Nahuatl language --- Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Mixtec art. --- Mixtec language --- Manuscrits nahuatl --- Peinture aztèque --- Nahuatl (Langue) --- Manuscrits mixtèques --- Art mixtèque --- Mixtèque (langue) --- Writing. --- Ecriture --- Aztec --- Mixtec [culture or style] --- Mexico --- Aztec painting --- Manuscripts, Mixtec --- Manuscripts, Nahuatl --- Mixtec art --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Aztecs --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- Mixtec Indians --- Art, Mixtec --- Art, Mexican --- Manuscripts, Aztec --- Nahuatl manuscripts --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Painting, Aztec --- Aztec art --- Painting, Mexican --- Writing --- Art --- Painting --- Peinture aztèque --- Manuscrits mixtèques --- Art mixtèque --- Mixtèque (langue) --- Aztec [culture or style]

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Este libro expone la historia y grandeza del pueblo mixteco, su origen e historia, su ceramica y sus codices. Acompanenos a este paseo por una de las culturas, que a pesar del paso del tiempo y las adversidades, mantienen su identidad y un mismo mito de origen: ser los primeros en habitar el "pueblo de la lluvia".

Condición social --- Condiciones culturales. --- Aborígenes --- Mitología. --- Literatura. --- Cerámica. --- Antropología cultural y social. --- Sociología cultural. --- Historia --- Artes. --- Religión. --- Filosofía. --- Indian art --- Indians of Mexico --- Antiquities. --- Mexico --- Mixtec Indians. --- Mixtec art. --- Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Archaeological museums and collections