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Stories in red and black : pictorial histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs /

"This investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans understood and presented themselves and how they used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems developed, like mathematical or musical notation, to convey meani...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boone, Elizabeth Hill (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Configuring the past
  • History and historians
  • Writing in images
  • Structures of history
  • Mixtec genealogical histories
  • Lienzos and tiras from Oaxaca and southern Puebla
  • Stories of migration, conquest, and consolidation in the central valleys
  • Aztec altepetl annals
  • Histories with a purpose.