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Aztec religion and art of writing : investigating embodied meaning, indigenous semiotics, and the Nahua sense of reality /
In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of religions ;
161. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Introduction 1
- 1 Methodology 16
- 2 Living in Cultural Diversity 59
- 3 Living in Relation: Being Human in Tenochtitlan 80
- 4 A World in Motion: Nahua Ontology 109
- 5 Understanding a World in Motion: Nahua Epistemology 149
- 6 Interacting with a World in Motion: Nahua Pragmatism and Aesthetics 167
- 7 Expressing Reality in Language: Nahua Linguistic Theory 203
- 8 Materializing Reality in Writing: Nahua Pictography 246
- 9 Understanding Pictography: Interpreting Nahua Semiotics 286
- 10 Interpretative Results: Nahua Religion, Scripture, and Sense of Reality 342
- Conclusion 356
- Figures 365
- Figure Credits 381
- Back Matter
- References
- Index.