| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 615 pages). |
| Series |
The Early Americas: History and Culture ; volume 5 |
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Early Americas: history and culture ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2017). |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Mesoamerica: Historical Development -- 2. Ancient Scriptures -- 3. Main Cycles of the Calendar -- 4. First Day-Keepers -- 5. Denial of Coevalness -- 6. Methodological Concerns -- 7. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- pt. 1 Offering to the Sacred Bundles -- 1. Tomb 7 at Monte Alban -- 1. Deposition of Two Periods -- 2. Human Remains in Tomb 7 -- 3. Ancient Literary Context -- 4. Calendar Dates in Tomb 7 -- 5. Connections with Nuu Dzaui History -- 6. Connections with Beni Zaa History -- 7. Female Agency -- 8. Revisiting Tomb 7 -- 9. Approaching the Relics -- 10. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 2. Life -- Death -- Life -- 1. Tale of a Grandmother -- 2. Nahua and Maya Parallels -- 3. Symbolic Dimension -- 4. Cihuacoatl and Lady 9 Grass -- 5. Mortuary Bundles -- 6. Divine Ancestors -- 7. Communication with the Dead -- 8. Golden Ornament Number 26 -- 9. Subterraneous Sanctuary -- 10. Internal Organisation of Tomb 7 -- 11. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 3. Hymns of Jaguars and Eagles -- 1. Flower, Song -- 2. Tree of the Dynasty -- 3. Tree Birth at Apoala -- 4. War against the Stone Men -- 5. First Sunrise and the Cycle of Time -- 6. Pulque Ritual -- 7. Realm of the Dead -- 8. Lady 4 Rabbit̀ Quetzal' -- 9. Marital Alliance -- 10. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 4. Memory and Oracle -- 1. Chalcatzingo: The Preclassic Template -- 2. Occasions for Precious Offerings -- 3. Ballcourt Pendant -- 4. Sacred Flint -- 5. Temple of Jewels -- 6. Identifying Monte Alban in the Codices -- 7. Lady 6 Monkey at Monte Alban -- 8. Funerary Ceremony for Lord 12 Movement -- 9. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- pt. 2 Preparing the New Fire -- 5. Foundation of a Dynasty -- 1. Pictorial Manuscripts from the Coixtlahuaca Valley -- 2. Couple in Heaven -- 3. Chicomoztoc -- 4. Religious Peregrination -- 5. Sacred Mountain -- 6. Primordial Conquest -- 7. Lady 13 Alligator, the Peacemaker -- 8. Atonal, First Ruler of Coixtlahuaca -- 9. Lord 8 Deer and Quetzalcoatl -- 10. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 6. Fifth Sun Rising -- 1. Inauguration of the Templo Mayor -- 2. Cihuacoatl: Goddess and Priest -- 3. Stone of Tizoc -- 4. Calendar Stone -- 5. Moctezuma's Altar -- 6. Binding of 52 Years -- 7. Ceremonial Landscape of Mount Huixachtlan -- 8. Moctezuma and Ce Acatl -- 9. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- 7. Sanctuary of Night and Wind -- 1. Historical Background of Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia) -- 2. Studies of Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia) -- 3. Point of Departure for a New Reading -- 4. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 29: Vision -- 5. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 30: Bloodletting for Trees -- 6. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 31: Transformation of Death into Life -- 7. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 32: Preparing the Knife -- 8. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 33 -- 34: The Temple of Heaven -- 9. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 35 -- 38: Opening the Sacred Bundle -- 10. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 39 -- 40: The Night Sun -- 11. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Pages 41 -- 42: Sacrifice -- 12. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 43: Sustenance -- 13. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 44: Rulership -- 14. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 45: Venus -- 15. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 46: Fire-making -- 16. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl (Borgia), Page 47: Men and Women -- 17. Recapitulation and Concluding Remarks -- Synthesis: Heritage and Spirit Connection -- 1. Root Symbolism -- 2. Tomb 7: A Dynastic Shrine -- 3. Continuous Presence of Cihuacoatl -- 4. Intercultural Time and Decolonising Perspective -- 5. Final Image. |
| Local Note |
Brill eBooks, open access |
| Subject |
Aztec art.
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Mixtec art.
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Ritual in art.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Aztec art. (OCoLC)fst00824692
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Mixtec art. (OCoLC)fst01024138
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Ritual in art. (OCoLC)fst01098255
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| Added Author |
Pérez Jiménez, Gabina Aurora, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jansen, Maarten E.R.G.N. (Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas), 1952- Time and the ancestors. Leiden : Brill, 2017 9789004340510 (DLC) 2016054804 |
| ISBN |
9789004340527 (electronic book) |
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9004340521 (electronic book) |
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9789004340510 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004340527 |
| ISBN |
9004340513 |
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