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13 produkter
Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts
Time, Agency and Memory in Ancient Mexico
Av Maarten Jansen, Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez
Inbunden, 2010
3300 kr
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The Mixtec civilization (of Oaxaca, Mexico) is one of the most interesting to survive from pre-colonial Mesoamerica. Among its characteristic products were highly artistic pictographic codices depicting the history and dynasties of its city-states. This handbook surveys and describes the …
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
Response and Continuity of Indigenous Pottery Technology in Central Mexico
Inbunden, 2011
2512 kr
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The Spanish colonization dramatically interrupted the autonomous development of ancient Mesoamerican culture. Nevertheless, indigenous societies learnt to live with the conquest. It was not only a time of crisis, but also an extraordinarily creative time period in which material culture reflected …
Two Faces of Inca History
Dualism in the Narratives and Cosmology of Ancient Cuzco
Av Isabel Yaya
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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The historical narratives of the Inca dynasty, known to us through Spanish records, present several discrepancies that scholarship has long attributed to the biases and agendas of colonial actors. Drawing on a redefinition of royal descent and a comparative literary analysis of primary sources, …
Ritual Practice of Time
Philosophy and Sociopolitics of Mesoamerican Calendars
Inbunden, 2013
3076 kr
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Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the 52-years calendar. Building upon a …
Time and the Ancestors
Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art
Av Maarten Jansen, Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez
Inbunden, 2017
3023 kr
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In Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art, Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological contexts, historical sources and living cultural traditions, they …
Painted Pottery of Honduras
Object Lives and Itineraries
Inbunden, 2017
2606 kr
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In Painted Pottery of Honduras Rosemary Joyce describes the development of the Ulua Polychrome tradition in Honduras from the fifth to sixteenth centuries AD, and critically examines archaeological research on these objects that began in the nineteenth century. Previously treated as a marginal …
Chilam Balam of Ixil: Facsimile and Study of an Unpublished Maya Book
Inbunden, 2019
3640 kr
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In Chilam Balam of Ixil Laura Caso Barrera translates for the first time a Yucatec Maya document that resulted from the meticulous reading by the Colonial Maya of various European texts such as the Bible and the Poem of the Mío Cid, as well as various studies on astronomy, astrology, calendars, and …
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations
Inbunden, 2018
3573 kr
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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 spectroscopy …
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
Archaeological Case Studies
Inbunden, 2019
3031 kr
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Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 case studies focusing on the early colonial history and archaeology of indigenous cultural persistence and change in the Caribbean and its surrounding mainland(s) after AD 1492. With a special …
Visual Culture and Indigenous Agency in the Early Americas
Inbunden, 2021
2110 kr
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This volume explores how visual arts functioned in the indigenous pre- and post-conquest New World as vehicles of social, religious, and political identity. Twelve scholars in the field of visual arts examine indigenous artistic expressions in the American continent from the pre-Hispanic age to the …
Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628–1648)
Av Martijn van den Bel, Mariana Françozo
Inbunden, 2023
2064 kr
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This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil. The selected documents vary widely in type, including letters, descriptions, …
Local Voices, Global Debates
The Uses of Archaeological Heritage in the Caribbean
Inbunden, 2024
1749 kr
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What is the role of local Caribbean individuals and communities in creating and perpetuating archaeological heritage? How has archaeological knowledge been integrated into education plans in different countries? This book aims to fill a gap in both archaeological scholarship and popular knowledge …
Humor and Laughter among the Pre-Hispanic Nahua
The Rabbit, the Navel and the Jester Ruler
Inbunden, 2025
1868 kr
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What made the Nahua laugh? This book dives into colonial-era Nahuatl and Spanish sources to uncover the roles of humor and laughter in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico, offering a lively and original look at an often-overlooked dimension of Mesoamerican culture. From ritual clowns and sacred jokes to …
