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-
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
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Other authors / contributors:Pérez Jiménez, Gabina Aurora.
ISBN:9781607327103
1607327104
1607326108
9781607326106
9780870818684
0870818686
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index.
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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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