Encounter with the Plumed Serpent
The Mixtec, or the people of 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. This book presents and interprets the sacred histories narrated...
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| author | Aurora Pérez Jimenez, Gabina Janssen, Maarten |
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| description | The Mixtec, or the people of 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. This book presents and interprets 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. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Perez Jimenez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-375542022-05-02T10:05:17Z Encounter with the Plumed Serpent Aurora Pérez Jimenez, Gabina Janssen, Maarten Anthropology Deer Lord Monte Albán Toltec The Mixtec, or the people of 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. This book presents and interprets 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. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Perez Jimenez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-31 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:49:30Z 2007-04-30 book 625247 OCN: 608476852 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31788 9781607327103 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37554 eng Mesoamerican Worlds open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31788/1/625247.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31788/1/625247.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31788/1/625247.pdf University Press of Colorado 10.26530/oapen_625247 10.26530/oapen_625247 bdb618a1-113c-44b5-a845-a542cf87281e 969f21b5-ac00-4517-9de2-44973eec6874 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781607327103 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100340 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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