Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas – serie
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Kawsay Vida
A Multimedia Quechua Course for Beginners and Beyond
Häftad, 2014
394 kr
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Kawsay Vida is a course book and interactive multimedia program for the teaching and learning of the Quechua language from beginner to advanced levels. The course book is based on contemporary Bolivian Quechua, while the multimedia program contains a section on Bolivian Quechua (beginner to …
Relación De Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico
Av Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol
Häftad, 2015
455 kr
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Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The RelaciÓn de MichoacÁn (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving …
At Home with the Sapa Inca
Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero
Av Stella Nair
Häftad, 2015
513 kr
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By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca’s …
Songs That Make the Road Dance
Courtship and Fertility Music of the Tz'utujil Maya
Häftad, 2015
284 kr
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An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz’utujil Maya of Santiago AtitlÁn, Guatemala, the “Songs of the Old Ones” are a central vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda …
On the Lips of Others
Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals
Häftad, 2015
513 kr
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Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital city of Tenochtitlan, where his deeds were recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments and his command was expressed in highly refined ritual …
Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages
Av Chris Rogers
Inbunden, 2016
1058 kr
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Once spoken only in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, the Xinkan language family is unique within Mesoamerica, comprising four closely related languages that are unrelated to any of the other language groups used within the region. Descriptions of Xinkan date to 1770 but are typically only sketches …
Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages
Av Chris Rogers
Häftad, 2016
340 kr
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Once spoken only in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, the Xinkan language family is unique within Mesoamerica, comprising four closely related languages that are unrelated to any of the other language groups used within the region. Descriptions of Xinkan date to 1770 but are typically only sketches …
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between
Murals of the Colonial Andes
Häftad, 2016
368 kr
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Examining the vivid, often apocalyptic church murals of Peru from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between explores the sociopolitical situation represented by the artists who generated these murals for rural parishes. Arguing that the murals …
Fate of Earthly Things
Aztec Gods and God-Bodies
Häftad, 2015
386 kr
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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a “god” (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts …
Portraying the Aztec Past
The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin
Häftad, 2018
340 kr
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During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325–1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native …
Trail of Footprints
A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico
Av Alex Hidalgo
Häftad, 2019
340 kr
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Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern region of Oaxaca anchors an analysis of the …
Image Encounters
Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History
Av Lisa Trever
Häftad, 2022
513 kr
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2022 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize, Bard Graduate CenterA landmark study of ancient Peruvian Moche mural art.Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, …
