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Encounter with the Plumed Serpent

Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica

By: Maarten Jansen,Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez

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Encounter with the Plumed Serpent

Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica

By: Maarten Jansen,Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez

The Mixtec, or the people of Ñuu 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. In Encounter with the Plumed Serpent, two leading scholars present and interpret 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. Their synthesis here builds on long examination of the ancient manuscripts. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Pérez Jiménez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history. Archaeologists and other scholars as well as readers with an interest in Mesoamerican cultures will find this lavishly illustrated volume a compelling and fascinating history and a major step forward in knowledge of the Mixtec.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607327104

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9781607327103

Time and the Ancestors

Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art

By: Maarten Jansen,Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

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Time and the Ancestors

Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art

By: Maarten Jansen,Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.

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645

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BRILL

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9004340521

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9789004340527

The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts

Time, Agency and Memory in Ancient Mexico

By: Maarten Jansen,Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

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The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts

Time, Agency and Memory in Ancient Mexico

By: Maarten Jansen,Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.

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598

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9004193588

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9789004193581

Codex Bodley

A Painted Chronicle from the Mixtec Highlands, Mexico

By: Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas Jansen,Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

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Codex Bodley

A Painted Chronicle from the Mixtec Highlands, Mexico

By: Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas Jansen,Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

The Codex Bodley has long been recognized as one of the most important Mixtec manuscripts. Painted shortly before the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1521), in the Mixtec region (state of Oaxaca), it is an excellent example of native Mixtec pictorial historiography in all its complexity. Because of its detailed information on genealogical relationships and dated events, it is a fundamental source for the study of precolonial Mixtec writing and history, from approximately 900 AD till the Spanish conquest (1521).For the first time, the entire manuscript is reproduced in a handy, single volume format. The commentary, based on many years of research on this manuscript and related documents, both in archives and in the Mixtec region itself, makes it possible to read the figurative paintings as a narrative text. Beginning with the history of the manuscript the author then discusses the main characteristics of Mixtec pictography before turning to the narrative of the manuscript, in a page-by-page explanatory reading of the pictograms and their significance. Highly illustrated, this is an essential text for all readers with an interest in pre-colonial Mexican history, art, and culture.

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1851240950

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Encounter with the Plumed Serpent

Encounter with the Plumed Serpent

Time and the Ancestors

Time and the Ancestors

The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts

The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts

Codex Bodley

Codex Bodley

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