Ancient Secrets Unraveled Exploring The Enigma Of Symbols At Teotihuacan
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Ancient Secrets Unraveled Exploring The Enigma Of Symbols At Teotihuacan
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Author : Pasquale De Marco
language : en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date : 2025-07-07
Ancient Secrets Unraveled Exploring The Enigma Of Symbols At Teotihuacan written by Pasquale De Marco and has been published by Pasquale De Marco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-07 with History categories.
In the heart of Mexico lies Teotihuacan, an ancient city shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Its towering pyramids, sprawling plazas, and enigmatic symbols have captivated the imaginations of scholars, archaeologists, and travelers for centuries. Among the many unanswered questions that surround this ancient metropolis, one stands out: the significance of its symbols. This book embarks on a captivating journey to explore the enigma of symbols at Teotihuacan, delving into their origins, meanings, and the potential role they played in shaping the cultural and spiritual life of this ancient city. Through a comprehensive analysis of the symbols found at Teotihuacan, the book sheds light on the beliefs, rituals, and daily lives of its inhabitants. With meticulous research and engaging storytelling, the book unravels the secrets held within these symbols, revealing a complex and sophisticated civilization. It examines the symbolism of Teotihuacan's architecture, art, and artifacts, providing a deeper understanding of the city's social, political, and religious systems. Beyond Teotihuacan, the book explores the connections between its symbols and those found in other cultures around the world, suggesting a universal language of imagery that transcends time and place. This comparative analysis offers insights into the shared experiences and beliefs that unite humanity, fostering a sense of global community and understanding. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in ancient civilizations, symbolism, and the enduring power of human creativity. It invites readers to contemplate the mysteries of the past, ponder the nature of reality, and marvel at the resilience of the human spirit. Ultimately, this book is a testament to the enduring power of symbols to bridge the gap between past and present, offering a glimpse into the minds and hearts of a long-lost civilization and inspiring us to reflect on our own place in the vast tapestry of human history. If you like this book, write a review on google books!
Tenochtitlan
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Author : Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 1988
Tenochtitlan written by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Aztecs categories.
The Aztecs have fascinated and horrified Westerners for centuries. After Cortes' extraordinary conquest of the New World's most powerful civilization in 1521, the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was levelled and its Great Temple demolished. Soon even the location of the old cult centre was lost - until 1978, when tunnelling for Mexico City's subway system unearthed clues that led to the rediscovery of the Great Temple and the most spectacular series of excavations ever conducted in Mexico.
Quetzalcoatl And The Irony Of Empire
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Author : David Carrasco
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-06-15
Quetzalcoatl And The Irony Of Empire written by David Carrasco and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-15 with History categories.
"Carrasco utilizes the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban geography to explore the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organization, legitimation, and--ultimately--subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition. One of the most original contributions of his study is the use of the concepts of center and periphery to illuminate the complexities of the history of Mesoamerican religion. Expanding on the notion of the theory of the central place and the symbolism of the center, he draws attention to the powers of peripheral communities in the empires of Mesoamerica. He shows how the great shrines of Quetzalcoatl and the ceremonial centers they organized generated enormous centripetal and centrifugal forces that extended imperial frontiers to dangerous dimensions." -- Back cover
Spaces Of Capital Spaces Of Resistance
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Author : Chris Hesketh
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2017
Spaces Of Capital Spaces Of Resistance written by Chris Hesketh and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Business & Economics categories.
Based on fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh's discussion of state formation in Mexico takes us beyond the national level to explore the interplay between global, regional, national, and sub-national articulations of power.
The Florentine Codex
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Author : Jeanette Favrot Peterson
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The Florentine Codex written by Jeanette Favrot Peterson and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Art categories.
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.
Mexico At The World S Fairs
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Author : Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Mexico At The World S Fairs written by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
"Cosmopolitan approach frames the issue within a more international setting than is common in works about a single Latin American country. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
The Cambridge Handbook Of Literacy
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Author : David R. Olson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-16
The Cambridge Handbook Of Literacy written by David R. Olson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-16 with Education categories.
This volume demonstrates how literacy is more than learning to read and write. Literacy creates communities, organizes personal and social lives, makes possible civil society and the rule of law, and underwrites the commitment of both modern and developing societies to universal education and ever higher levels of literate competence. Everything that is involved in being and becoming literate is the concern of this interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars.
Children Of The Mire
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Author : Octavio Paz
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991
Children Of The Mire written by Octavio Paz and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
"An instant classic."--Calvin Bedient, The New Republic Mexico's greatest modern poet reflects upon the twilight of modernity. If Octavio Paz was "one of the greatest poets that the Spanish-language world has ever produced," as Mario Vargas Llosa once said, he was also an astoundingly erudite critic. Here, in his 1971-1972 Norton Lectures, the Nobel laureate offers a potent and prescient diagnosis of the condition of poetry in the wake of literary modernism. Poetry's relationship with modernity, Paz argues, has always been tempestuous. If modern temporality posited the forward march of history toward the gates of a secular future, poetry is the "world of nonsequential time...a spiral sequence which turns ceaselessly without ever returning completely to its beginning." And if modernity is the age of revolution, a negation of the past propelled by critical rationality, poetry chafes against the strictures of reason, aimlessly dwelling in dreams, eroticism, mythology, and other realms inaccessible to revolutionary fervor. Meanwhile, avant-garde attempts to embrace the "aesthetics of change" and recreate the revolutionary spirit in verse have exhausted themselves. What's left, Paz maintains, is to return to the sinuous temporality of the poem itself, the irresolvable tension between the historical text and the abolition of history in the lyrical present. Mapping the changing meanings of modernity across a wide range of poetic movements, from English and German Romanticism, French Surrealism, and Latin American modernismo to the avant-garde experiments of Vicente García-Huidobro, Children of the Mire is not only a dazzlingly cosmopolitan work of literary criticism. It is also a revealing portrait of the one of the defining voices of Latin American literature.
The Relative Native
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Author : Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
language : en
Publisher: HAU Books
Release Date : 2016-02-15
The Relative Native written by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and has been published by HAU Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-15 with Social Science categories.
This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, “Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere.” Rounded out with new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works, the resulting book is a wide-ranging portrait of one of the towering figures of contemporary thought—philosopher, anthropologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, and more. With a new afterword by Roy Wagner elucidating Viveiros de Castro’s work, influence, and legacy, The Relative Native will be required reading, further cementing Viveiros de Castro’s position at the center of contemporary anthropological inquiry.
Primitivism And Identity In Latin America
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Author : Erik Camayd-Freixas
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2000-08
Primitivism And Identity In Latin America written by Erik Camayd-Freixas and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although primitivism has received renewed attention in recent years, studies linking it with Latin America have been rare. This volume examines primitivism and its implications for contemporary debates on Latin American culture, literature, and arts, showing how Latin American subjects employ a Western construct to "return the gaze" of the outside world and redefine themselves in relation to modernity. Examining such subjects as Julio Cort‡zar and Frida Kahlo and such topics as folk art and cinema, the volume brings together for the first time the views of scholars who are currently engaging the task of cultural studies from the standpoint of primitivism. These varied contributions include analyses of Latin American art in relation to social issues, popular culture, and official cultural policy; essays in cultural criticism touching on ethnic identity, racial politics, women's issues, and conflictive modernity; and analytical studies of primitivism's impact on narrative theory and practice, film, theater, and poetry. This collection contributes offers a new perspective on a variety of significant debates in Latin American cultural studies and shows that the term primitive does not apply to these cultures as much as to our understanding of them. CONTENTS Paradise Subverted: The Invention of the Mexican Character / Roger Bartra Between Sade and the Savage: Octavio PazÕs Aztecs / Amaryll Chanady Under the Shadow of God: Roots of Primitivism in Early Colonial Mexico / Delia Annunziata Cosentino Of Alebrijes and Ocumichos: Some Myths about Folk Art and Mexican Identity / Eli Bartra Primitive Borders: Cultural Identity and Ethnic Cleansing in the Dominican Republic / Fernando Valerio-Holgu’n Dialectics of Archaism and Modernity: Technique and Primitivism in Angel RamaÕs Transculturaci—n narrativa en AmŽrica Latina / JosŽ Eduardo Gonz‡lez Narrative Primitivism: Theory and Practice in Latin America / Erik Camayd-Freixas Narrating the Other: Julio Cort‡zarÕs "Axolotl" as Ethnographic Allegory / R. Lane Kauffmann Jungle Fever: Primitivism in Environmentalism; R—mulo GallegosÕs Canaima and the Romance of the Jungle / Jorge Marcone Primitivism and Cultural Production: FutureÕs Memory; Native PeoplesÕ Voices in Latin American Society / Ivete Lara Camargos Walty Primitive Bodies in Latin American Cinema: Nicol‡s Echevarr’aÕs Cabeza de Vaca / Luis Fernando Restrepo Subliminal Body: Shamanism, Ancient Theater, and Ethnodrama / Gabriel Weisz Primitivist Construction of Identity in the Work of Frida Kahlo / Wendy B. Faris Mi andina y dulce Rita: Women, Indigenism, and the Avant-Garde in CŽsar Vallejo / Tace Megan Hedrick