Mesoamerican manuscripts : new scientific approaches and interpretations /
"Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations brings together a wide range of modern approaches to the study of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. This includes innovative studies of materiality through the application of non-invasive spectrosco...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Early Americas: history and culture ;
v. 8. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Codex Mendoza: writing and re-writing "the last word" / Frances F. Berdan
- The Codex Mendoza and the archaeology of Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján
- From "rich plumes" to war accoutrements: feathered objects in the Codex Mendoza and their extant representatives / Laura Filloy Nadal and María Olvido Moreno Guzmán
- The Tlamatque and Codex Mendoza / Raul Macuil Martínez
- Conquest, growth and evolution: indigenist discourse in the Codex Mendoza / Jorge Gómez-Tejada
- Exploring the materiality of Mesoamerican manuscripts by non-invasive spectroscopic methods: Codex Laud, Bodley, Selden, Mendoza and Selden Roll at the Bodleian Library / Chiara Grazia, David Buti, Laura Cartechini, Francesca Rosi, Francesca Gabrieli, Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán, Davide Domenici, Antonio Sgamellotti, Aldo Romani and Costanza Miliani
- Cultural and historical implications of non-destructive analyses on Mesoamerican codices in the Bodleian Libraries / Davide Domenici, Costanza Miliani and Antonio Sgamellotti
- The Codex Laud and the problem of its provenance / María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria
- Mazatec chants and Mesoamerican codices / Alessia Frassani
- Codex Yoalli Ehecatl as a temicamatl or "Book to interpret dreams" / Araceli Rojas Martínez Gracida
- The Dresden Codex and contemporary K'iche' serpent dance / Paul van den Akker
- Maya literary traditions and present-day concerns: an indigenous reading of ancient manuscripts / Manuel May Castillo
- Re-interpreting Ñuu Savi pictorial manuscripts from a Mixtec perspective: linking past and present / Omar Aguilar Sánchez
- Chronological correlations in Aztec and Mixtec history / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez
- Imaging Mexican codices: challenges and opportunities / Tim Zaman, David Howell and Ludo Snijders
- Codex Yoho Yuchi, the text inside the Mixtec Codex Añute / Ludo Snijders
- Reading Mixtec manuscripts as ceremonial discourse: historical and ideological background of Codex Añute (Selden) / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez
- Conclusions: Materiality and practice in the study of Mexican manuscripts / Rosemary A. Joyce.