Encounter with the plumed serpent : drama and power in the heart of Mesoamerica /
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Author / Creator: | Jansen, Maarten E. R. G. N. (Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas), 1952- |
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Imprint: | Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 395 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Mesoamerican worlds Mesoamerican worlds. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11396692 |
Other authors / contributors: | Pérez Jiménez, Gabina Aurora. |
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ISBN: | 9781607327103 1607327104 1607326108 9781607326106 9780870818684 0870818686 |
Digital file characteristics: | text file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 In English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
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 |
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 |
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