Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text and Image in the Works of Sahagun (Mesoamerican Worlds)

Keber, Eloise Quinones

ISBN 10: 0870816829 / ISBN 13: 9780870816826

Published by University Press of Colorado, 2003

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2002 University Press of Colorado HARDCOVER WITH DJ, x+312pp, 8vo. NOT EX-LIBRARY. PLEASE NOTE: Upper edges of DJ show faint staining, with rippling to back surface; head fore-corners of last about 100 pages show very slight wave (all within 1 inch of corner) evidently resulting from liquid, not affecting page separation or print. Red-pen underlining of few pages in first half of book, with small red checks among references throughout. All that and book still appears VG. Pages clean, unmarked, and not tanning. Hinges firm and fine; binding has about 1/8-inch looseness, more than VG. Boards look as new, with very slight bumping to spine ends. DJ, aside from those faint stains (which I initially thought part of the design), appears clean, is unmarked, without fading, with little rubbing; slight bumping along heads. Former owner's name and acquisition date penned on ffep. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B30.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text and Image in the Works of Sahagun (Mesoamerican Worlds)
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: Austronesian (Other)
• ISBN 10: 0870816829
• ISBN 13: 9780870816826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Arriving in Mexico less than a decade after the Spanish conquest of 1521, the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún not only labored to supplant native religion with Christianity, he also gathered voluminous information on virtually every aspect of Aztec (Nahua) life in contact-period Mexico. His pioneering ethnographic work relied on interviews with Nahua elders and the assistance of a younger generation of bicultural, missionary-trained Nahuas. Sahagún's remarkably detailed descriptions of Aztec ceremonial life offer the most extensive account of a non-Western ritual system recorded before modern times.

Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún uses Sahagún's corpus as a starting point to focus on ritual performance, a key element in the functioning of the Aztec world. With topics ranging from the ritual use of sand and paper to the sacrifice of women, contributors explore how Aztec rites were represented in the images and texts of documents compiled under colonial rule and the implications of this European filter for our understanding of these ceremonies. Incorporating diverse disciplinary perspectives, contributors include Davíd Carrasco, Philip P. Arnold, Kay Read, H. B. Nicholson, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Guilhem Olivier, Doris Heyden, and Eloise Quiñones Keber.

About the Author

Eloise Quiñones Keber is a professor of art history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript.