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Descendants of Aztec Pictography - The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Hardcover)
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Descendants of Aztec Pictography - The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Hardcover)
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In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of
Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous
rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history,
religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created
served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but
their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and
writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major
surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth
Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented
their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct
corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous
traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive,
authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the
books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the
indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial
expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient
discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias,
Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted
compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the
Atlantic.
General
Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Elizabeth Hill Boone
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Dimensions: |
279 x 216 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4773-2167-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4773-2167-5 |
Barcode: |
9781477321676 |
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