| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 395 pages) : illustrations |
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Mesoamerican worlds |
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Mesoamerican worlds.
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| Contents |
The mat and the throne -- Storytelling and ritual -- Descent of the plumed serpent -- Founding mothers -- The rise of Ñuu Tnoo -- Lord of the Toltecs -- Triumph and tragedy -- Flute of the divine -- The crown of Motecuhzoma |
| Summary |
The Mixtec, or the people of Savi ("Nation of the Rain God"), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. This book presents and interprets the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscripts in existence. In these screenfold books, ancient painter-historians chronicled the politics of the Mixtec from approximately a.d. 900 to 1521, portraying the royal families, rituals, wars, alliances, and ideology of the times. By analyzing and cross-referencing the codices, which have been fragmented and dispersed in far-flung archives, the authors attempt to reconstruct Mixtec history. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Perez Jimenez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history |
| Analysis |
Anthropology |
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Deer |
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Lord |
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Monte Albán |
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Toltec |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| In |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Subject |
Manuscripts, Mixtec.
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Mixtec Indians -- Historiography
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Mixtec Indians -- Genealogy
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Mixtec Indians -- Social life and customs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Manuscripts, Mixtec
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Mixtec Indians
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Mixtec Indians -- Social life and customs
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Codices.
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Midden-Amerika.
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| Genre/Form |
Genealogy
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Family histories.
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Histoires familiales.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pérez Jiménez, Gabina Aurora.
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| LC no. |
2007001523 |
| ISBN |
9781607327103 |
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1607327104 |
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1607326108 |
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9781607326106 |
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