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Painted books and indigenous knowledge in Mesoamerica : manuscript studies in honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Smith, Mary Elizabeth, 1932 Aug. 2-, Boone, Elizabeth Hill
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New Orleans, La. : Middle American Research Institute, 2005.
Colección:Publication (Tulane University. Middle American Research Institute) ; 69.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one: aztecs themes
  • In Tlamatinime: the wisw mwn and womwn of aztec Mexico
  • Female deities of divination in the aztec Tonalamatl
  • The bodies of the the gods: as seen in cult images made of wood in the pictorical codices
  • Flaying, curing, and shedding: some thoughts on tge aztec god Xipe Topec
  • Betsy ab her "new testament": the infections influence of excellence. A study of the tchnological and symbolic implications encoded in aztec textile motifs
  • Part two: Zapotec, Mixtec, and Toltec themes
  • Place glyphs and polity boundaries: two zapotec cases
  • The Arroyo group lintel painting at Mitla, Oaxaca
  • Roads as connectors in mixtec pictorial histories
  • Ce Acatl Nacxitl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl of tollan = 4 jaguar of "cattail frieze" and military ally of 8 deer "jaguar claw"?
  • The toltec countdown
  • Part three: maya themes
  • Renewal ceremonies in the Madrid Codex
  • Astronomical references in the water tables on pages 69 to 74 of the Dresden Codex
  • Yerbas y hechicerías del Yucatán: colonial and contemporary plant use in Yucatan, Mexico
  • Ada/opting the mayan hieroglyphs as part of twebtieth-century Guatemalan maya texts
  • Part four: colonial themes
  • Colonial mexican calendar wheels: cultural translation and the problem of "authenticity"
  • The reordering of space in sixteenth-century Mexico: some implications of the grid
  • Painting colonial Mexico: the appropriation of european iconography in mexican manuscript painting
  • Part five: colonial concerns over rulership and land
  • Secularizing for survival: changing depictions of central mexican native rule in the early colonial period
  • At home in the world: mixtec elites and the Teozacoalco map-genealogy
  • The Codex Muro as a land document
  • Mixtec codices and the transitiion from noble states to corporate communities in the nineteenth century
  • Anew Techialoyan Codex from San Pedro Tototepec ( Toluca, Satate of Mexico).