Encounter With the Plumed Serpent: Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica - Rilegato

Jansen, Maarten; Jimenez, Gabina Aurora Perez

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0870818686 ISBN 13: 9780870818684

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Colorado, 2007

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez is a professor in the Archaeology Department of Leiden University in the Netherlands. Maarten Jansenis a professor in the Archaeology Department of Leiden University in the Netherlands and the author of several previous books on individual codices.

Product Description:

Book by Jansen Maarten Perez Jimenez Gabina Aurora

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Colorado
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0870818686
• ISBN 13: 9780870818684
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 395