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Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca : Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall /
In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexic...
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Author's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One
- 1. It Happened Long Ago
- 2. The People of the Codices
- 3. The Narrative Structure of Codex Zouche-Nuttall Obverse
- 4. Sacred Geography, Personified Geography
- 5. Caves in Mesoamerican Iconography
- Part Two
- 6. Lord Eight Wind's Introduction
- 7. The War from Heaven, Part One
- 8. The War from Heaven, Part Two
- 9. Lord Eight Wind's Family
- 10. Transition to the Future
- Part Three
- 11. Rituals of Order
- 12. The Problem of the Two Dead Lords
- 13. The Epiclassic Mixtec Ceremonial Complex
- Appendix I. Biographical Sketches of Major Personnel from the Codices: Lord Eight Deer the Usurper, Lord Two Rain the King, and Lady Six Monkey of Jaltepec
- Appendix II. Notes for Codex Zouche-Nuttall Pages 1-4
- Appendix III. Codex Zouche-Nuttall Reverse Day Dates on Pages 46a-48a for Year 5 Reed (AD 1095) and Lord Eight Deer's Campaign as Lord of Tututepec
- Bibliography
- Index