| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 395 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Series |
Mesoamerican worlds
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Mesoamerican worlds.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index. |
| Contents |
Mat and the throne -- Storytelling and ritual -- Descent of the plumed serpent -- Founding mothers -- Rise of Ñuu Tnoo -- Lord of the Toltecs -- Triumph and tragedy -- Flute of the divine -- Crown of Motecuhzoma. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Manuscripts, Mixtec.
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Manuscripts, Mixtec. |
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Mixtec Indians -- Historiography.
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Mixtec Indians. |
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Historiography. |
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Mixtec Indians -- Genealogy.
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| Genre/Form |
Genealogy.
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| Subject |
Mixtec Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Mixtec Indians -- Social life and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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Family histories.
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Family histories.
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| Added Author |
Pérez Jiménez, Gabina Aurora.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jansen, Maarten E.R.G.N. (Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas), 1952- Encounter with the plumed serpent. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2007 (DLC) 2007001523 (OCoLC)79256734 |
| ISBN |
9781607327103 (electronic book) |
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1607327104 (electronic book) |
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9780870818684 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0870818686 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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