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Molly H. Bassett - Bundle, Inbunden

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Bundle

Unwrapping Nahua Religious Traditions

Av Molly H. Bassett

620 kr

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An examination of the importance of Nahua sacred bundles, emphasizing their impact on power dynamics, language, and culture in the Nahua religious tradition.The Bundle is a deep scholarly meditation on tlaquimilolli, key religious objects of Mexico's Indigenous Nahua, formerly "Aztec," people. These sacred bundles, depicted across Nahua iconography, contained objects associated with the gods and their deeds and were believed to be their embodiments. Drawing on Indigenous sources, Molly Bassett tells the story of the tlaquimilolli's origins and significance, critically examines previous interpretations, and argues that the form of the tlaquimilolli—not just their contents—is a key to understanding Nahua cosmology.Bassett turns to Indigenous scholarhip to interrogate and "unwrap" accepted narratives, taking the sacred bundle itself as a model for theorizing the world. She attends to tlaquimilolli in the context of glyphs and poetry, ritual and ordinary activity, and ceremonial structures. In revealing ways, the material properties of tlaquimilolli were reflected in the architecture of major temples and key cities, like Tenochtitlan. Bundling was also closely entwined with relationships between caretakers and their dependents. These prosaic attachments cast both sacred objects and Nahua sociability in new light, challenging existing interpretations of Nahua religious traditions.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-08
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN: 9781477334492
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Molly H. Bassett teaches about Indigenous religious traditions, animals and religion, and world religions in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. She is the author of The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies and is coeditor of Indigenous Religious Traditions in 5 Minutes and Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh.

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"By exploring the idea of bundling as a trope for expressing fundamental concepts, Bassett frames Aztec religion in an innovative manner that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge and cosmological models. She deftly moves back and forth, throughout her study, from the material reality of bundles to their conceptual significance. New and exciting interpretive possibilities emerge through Bassett's use of bundling, both as metaphor and as an act with material implications, and this book will have enormous appeal for anyone interested in the ways in which Indigenous cultures formulate their understandings of the world." - Julia Guernsey, University of Texas at Austin, coeditor of Plantways in Mesoamerica: Three Millennia of Human–Plant Interactions and Conceptualizations"Molly Bassett is the new Virgil of Mesoamerican cosmology. In The Bundle, she leads readers around the clouded peaks of Nahua belief and practice with a clear-eyed approach and surefooted prose. Her chosen path, in turn, is guided by others, especially Native American thinkers and contemporary Nahua intellectuals. Bassett offers a fresh and innovative approach to key Nahua concepts, like teotl, teixiptla, and tlaquimilolli, and readers will emerge from the journey charted in this book gratified by its expansive view of Amerindian worldmaking." - Barbara E. Mundy, Tulane University, author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

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