Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36425-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: The Early Americas: History and Culture

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 and imaging techniques, as well as new insights into the meaning of these manuscripts and related visual art, stemming from a post-colonial indigenous perspective.

This cross- and interdisciplinary work shows on the one hand the value of collaboration of specialists in different field, but also the multiple viewpoints that are possible when these types of complex cultural expressions are approached from varied cultural and scientific backgrounds.

Contributors are: Omar Aguilar Sánchez, Paul van den Akker, Maria Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria, Frances F. Berdan, David Buti, Laura Cartechini, Davide Domenici, Laura Filloy Nadal, Alessia Frassani, Francesca Gabrieli, Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jorge Gómez Tejada, Chiara Grazia, David Howell, Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán, Leonardo López Luján, Raul Macuil Martínez, Manuel May Castillo, Costanza Miliani, María Olvido Moreno Guzmán, Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez, Araceli Rojas, Aldo Romani, Francesca Rosi, Antonio Sgamellotti, Ludo Snijders, and Tim Zaman.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jansen, Maarten

Lladó-Buisán, Virginia M.

Snijders, Ludo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen Indigene Religionen Amerikas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures, Maps and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1. The Codex Mendoza: Writing and Re-Writing ‘The Last Word’

Frances F. Berdan

2. The Codex Mendoza and the archaeology of Tenochtitlan

Leonardo López Luján

3. From “Rich Plumes” to War Accoutrements: Feathered Objects in the Codex Mendozaand Their Extant Representatives

Laura Filloy Nadal and María Olvido Moreno Guzmán

4. The Tlamatque and Codex Mendoza

Raul Macuil Martínez

5. Conquest, Growth and Evolution: Indigenist Discourse in the Codex Mendoza

Jorge Gómez Tejada

6. 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

7. Cultural and historical implications of non-destructive analyses on Mesoamerican codices in the Bodleian Libraries

Davide Domenici, Costanza Miliani, Antonio Sgamellotti

8. The Codex Laud and the Problem of Its Provenance

Ma. Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria

9. Mazatec chants and Mesoamerican codices

Alessia Frassani

10. Codex Yoalli Ehecatl as a book to interpret dreams

Araceli Rojas

11. The Dresden Codex and Contemporary K’iche’ Serpent Dance

Paul van den Akker

12. Maya literary traditions and present-day concerns. An indigenous reading of ancient manuscripts

Manuel May Castillo

13. Re-interpreting Ñuu Savi pictorial manuscripts from a Mixtec perspective. Linking past and present

Omar Aguilar Sánchez

14. The Birthday of Lord 8 Deer: chronological correlations in Mixtec history

Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

15. Imaging Mexican codices, challenges and opportunities

Tim Zaman, David Howell, and Ludo Snijders

16. Codex Yoho Yuchi, the text inside the Mixtec Codex Añute

Ludo Snijders

17. 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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen (PhD Leiden 1983) is Professor of Heritage of Indigenous Peoples at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is author of many studies about ancient Mexican art and history including The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts (Brill, 2011) and Time and the Ancestors (Brill 2017).

Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán is Head of Conservation and Collection Care at The Bodleian Libraries. She has collaborated with various experts on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Conservation Science, in order to advance the scientific study of Mexican manuscripts in the Bodleian collections.

Ludo Snijders (PhD Leiden 2016) is researcher at Leiden University. He has studied the cultural biography of Mesoamerican manuscripts and is specialised in the recovery of palimpsests through the application of non-invasive investigation techniques.