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Tamoanchan Tlalocan
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Author : Alfredo López Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Tamoanchan Tlalocan written by Alfredo López Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Drawing from historical sources, iconography, and beliefs of modern Indians, Lopez Austin (philosophy and letters, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) offers a new interpretation of the two mysterious places in the world vision of the Aztecs. Chapters on each of the two are supported with discussions of the relationships of the essences and making a model based on contemporary native concepts. The Spanish version was published in 1994 by Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Tamoanchan Y Tlalocan
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Author : Alfredo López Austin
language : es
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
Release Date : 1994
Tamoanchan Y Tlalocan written by Alfredo López Austin and has been published by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
An lisis de antiguas fuentes documentales y pictogr ficas, que deslindan el Tamoanchan m tico con el de las poblaciones que los creyentes fundaron sobre la Tierra como r plicas del arquetipo c smico. Para develar el secreto de Tlalocan, el autor ofrece un estudio de las creencias actuales de tres grupos ind genas pertenecientes a la tradici n mesoamericana.
Tamoanchan Tlalocan
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Author : Alfredo López Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Tamoanchan Tlalocan written by Alfredo López Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Drawing from historical sources, iconography, and beliefs of modern Indians, Lopez Austin (philosophy and letters, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) offers a new interpretation of the two mysterious places in the world vision of the Aztecs. Chapters on each of the two are supported with discussions of the relationships of the essences and making a model based on contemporary native concepts. The Spanish version was published in 1994 by Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Aztec Philosophy
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Author : James Maffie
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Aztec Philosophy written by James Maffie and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Social Science categories.
In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.
The Colors Of The New World
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Author : Diana Magaloni Kerpel
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2014-07-01
The Colors Of The New World written by Diana Magaloni Kerpel and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Art categories.
In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and twenty-two indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create nothing less than the first illustrated encyclopedia of the New World. Today this twelve-volume manuscript is preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and is widely known as the Florentine Codex. A monumental achievement, the Florentine Codex is the single most important artistic and historical document for studying the peoples and cultures of pre-Hispanic and colonial Central Mexico. It reflects both indigenous and Spanish traditions of writing and painting, including parallel columns of text in Spanish and Nahuatl and more than two thousand watercolor illustrations prepared in European and Aztec pictorial styles. This volume reveals the complex meanings inherent in the selection of the pigments used in the manuscript, offering a fascinating look into a previously hidden symbolic language. Drawing on cuttingedge approaches in art history, anthropology, and the material sciences, the book sheds new light on one of the world’s great manuscripts—and on a pivotal moment in the early modern Americas.
Visions Of Paradise
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Author : Robert Stephen Haskett
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2005
Visions Of Paradise written by Robert Stephen Haskett and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.
Cuernavaca, often called the “Mexican Paradise” or “Land of Eternal Spring,” has a deep, rich history. Few visitors to this modern resort city near Mexico City would guess from its Spanish architecture and landmarks that it was governed by its Tlalhuican residents until the early nineteenth century. Formerly called Cuauhnahuac, the city was renamed by the Spanish in the sixteenth century when Hernando Cortés built his stone palacio on its main square and thrust Cuernavaca into the colonial age. In Visions of Paradise, Robert Haskett presents a history of Cuernavaca, basing his account on an important body of late-seventeenth-century historical records known as primordial titles, written by still unknown members of the Native population. Until comparatively recently, these indigenous-language documents have been dismissed as “false” or “forged” land records. Haskett, however, uses these Nahuatl texts to present a colorful portrait of how the Tlalhuicas of Cuernavaca and its environs made intellectual sense of their place in the colonial scheme, conceived of their relationship to the sacred worlds of both their native religion and Christianity, and defined their own history. Surveying the local history of Cuernavaca from precontact observations by the Aztecs through postclassic times to the present, with a concentration on early colonial times, Haskett finds that the Native authors of the primordial titles crafted a celebratory history proclaiming themselves to be an enduringly autonomous, essentially unconquered people who triumphed over the rigors of the Spanish colonial system.
Framing The Sacred
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Author : Eleanor Wake
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-08
Framing The Sacred written by Eleanor Wake and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-08 with Architecture categories.
Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions the “cultural” conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico’s religious structures reveals the indigenous people’s own decisions regarding the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message. As Wake shows, native peoples selected aspects of the invading culture to secure their own culture’s survival. In focusing on anomalies present in indigenous art and their relationship to orthodox Christian iconography, she draws on a wide geographical sampling across various forms of Indian artistic expression, including religious sculpture and painting, innovative architectural detail, cartography, and devotional poetry. She also offers a detailed analysis of documented native ritual practices that—she argues—assist in the interpretation of the imagery. With more than 200 illustrations, including 24 in color, Framing the Sacred is the most extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity’s influence on Mexican peoples.
The Flower And The Scorpion
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Author : Pete Sigal
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-25
The Flower And The Scorpion written by Pete Sigal and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-25 with Health & Fitness categories.
Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.
Religion In Sixteenth Century Mexico
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Author : Cheryl Claassen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-02-10
Religion In Sixteenth Century Mexico written by Cheryl Claassen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-10 with History categories.
Detailed comparison of Aztec and Spanish religious devotion, examining the melding of practices during the first century of contact 1519-1600.
The Fate Of Earthly Things
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Author : Molly H. Bassett
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-01-30
The Fate Of Earthly Things written by Molly H. Bassett 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 2015-01-30 with Social Science categories.
Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion—teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)—to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world. In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ritual studies to explore what ritual practices such as human sacrifice and the manufacture of deity embodiments (including humans who became gods), material effigies, and sacred bundles meant to the Aztecs. She analyzes the Aztec belief that wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim during a sacred rite could transform a priest into an embodiment of a god or goddess, as well as how figurines and sacred bundles could become localized embodiments of gods. Without arguing for unbroken continuity between the Aztecs and modern speakers of Nahuatl, Bassett also describes contemporary rituals in which indigenous Mexicans who preserve costumbres (traditions) incorporate totiotzin (gods) made from paper into their daily lives. This research allows us to understand a religious imagination that found life in death and believed that deity embodiments became animate through the ritual binding of blood, skin, and bone.