Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0870815091 ISBN 13: 9780870815096

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Colorado, 1991

Riassunto

Papers from a conference bring insights from archaeoastronomy, the history of religion, anthropology, art history, and archaeology to the study of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Davíd Carrasco is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, professor of history of religions at Harvard University, editor of UPC's Mesoamerican Worlds series and editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. His works include Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage, Moctezuma's Mexico, Waiting for the Dawn, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (University Press of Colorado), and City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (Beacon).

Product Description:

Contents: Notes on the Oldest Structure of El Tempo Mayor at Tenochtitlan; A Study of Skeletal Materials from Tlatelolco; Discovery of a Painted Mural at Tlatelolco; The Mt. Tlaloc Project; The Sacrifice of Tezcatlipoca -- To Change Place; Mapping the Ritual Landscape -- Debt Payment to Tlaloc During the Month of Atlcahualo; The Sacred Landscape of Aztec Calendar Festivals -- Myth, Nature and Society; Migration Histories as Ritual Performance; The Myth of the Half-Man Who Descended from the Sky; The Octli Cult in Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico; Dryness Before the Rains -- Taxcatl and Tezcatlipoca; Reflection on the Miraculous Waters of Tenochtitlan; Vamos a Rezar a San Marcos -- A Tlapanec Pilgrimage; Eating Landscape -- Human Sacrifice and Sustenance in Aztec Mexico; Religious Rationalisation and the Conversions of the Nahuas -- Social Organisation and Colonial Epistemology; Remnants of the Shaman.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Colorado
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0870815091
• ISBN 13: 9780870815096
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Carrasco David