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Mesoamerican Codices

Religious manuscripts from ancient and early colonial Mexico offer a direct pathway into indigenous worldviews through the uniquely Mesoamerican medium of pictography. During the thousands of years preceding Spanish invasion, a complex calendrical system developed in the region, forming the basic or...

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Main Author: Frassani, Alessia
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BAR Publishing 2023
Subjects:
Mesoamerican codices; Mexica art; Nahua religion; Aztec art; calendrics; epigraphy; ethnography; iconography; Mazatec; Mazateca
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
Online Access:OCN: 1372569358
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Summary:Religious manuscripts from ancient and early colonial Mexico offer a direct pathway into indigenous worldviews through the uniquely Mesoamerican medium of pictography. During the thousands of years preceding Spanish invasion, a complex calendrical system developed in the region, forming the basic organizing principle of this pictorial language. This book offers new interpretations and insights on both calendrics and the related iconography of Mesoamerican religious manuscripts, based on the author’s field work in the Sierra Mazateca in northern Oaxaca. Detailed calendrical analysis is included, along with audio recordings of chants, prayers, and ceremonies available as an online download. The author’s novel approach questions accepted notions of divination, chronology, and the dichotomy between ritual and historical time.

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