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Author Rajagopalan, Angela Herren, author.

Title Portraying the Aztec Past : the Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin / Angela Herren Rajagopalan.

Publication Info. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas
Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : portraying the Aztec past -- Codex Boturini : a pictographic paradigm -- Master and apprentice : the multiple artistic hands in Codex Azcatitlan -- Don Martín Ecatzin : Codex Azcatitlan's cosmic hero -- Traitors, intrigue, and the cosmic cycle in Codex Azcatitlan -- Codex Aubin and the influence of printed books -- Conclusion : central Mexican manuscript painting in transition -- Epilogue. Life after production -- Appendix 1. Translation of the Nahuatl glosses in Codex Azcatitlan -- Appendix 2. Translation of the Nahuatl text in Codex Aubin.
Summary During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325-1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of the sixteenth century continued to use pre-Hispanic pictorial writing systems to record information about native culture. Three of these manuscripts-Codex Boturini, Codex Azcatitlan, and Codex Aubin-document the origin and migration of the Mexica people, one of several indigenous groups often collectively referred to as "Aztec."0In Portraying the Aztec Past, Angela Herren Rajagopalan offers a thorough study of these closely linked manuscripts, articulating their narrative and formal connections and examining differences in format, style, and communicative strategies. Through analyses that focus on the materials, stylistic traits, facture, and narrative qualities of the codices, she places these annals in their historical and social contexts. Her work adds to our understanding of the production and function of these manuscripts and explores how Mexica identity is presented and framed after the conquest.
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Subject Códice Boturini.
Códice Boturini.
Codex Azcatitlan.
Codex Azcatitlan.
Codex Aubin.
Codex Aubin.
Codex Aubin.
Codex Azcatitlan.
Códice Boturini.
Manuscripts, Nahuatl.
Manuscripts, Nahuatl.
Nahuatl language -- Writing.
Nahuatl language -- Writing.
Aztecs -- History.
Aztecs.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Rajagopalan, Angela Herren. Portraying the Aztec Past. First edition. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019 9781477316061 147731606X (DLC) 2018003954 (OCoLC)1022079952
ISBN 9781477316085 (electronic book)
1477316086 (electronic book)
9781477316092 (nonlibrary e-book)
1477316094 (nonlibrary e-book)
9781477316061
147731606X
9781477316078
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