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1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : illustrations |
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Mesoamerican worlds : from the Olmecs to the Danzantes |
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Mesoamerican worlds.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: FOREWORD BY ELIZABETH HILL BOONE XV -- INTRODUCTION I -- CHAPTER ONE I 7 -- Sources for Ochpaniztli: Negotiating Text and -- Image in Early Colonial Mexican Manuscripts -- CHAPTER TWO 35 -- Visualizing the Sacred in the Ochpaniztli Festival -- CHAPTER THREE 69 -- Purification and Renewal during the Festival of Ochpaniztli -- CHAPTER FOUR I03 -- The Colonial Image of Tlazolteotl -- CHAPTER FIVE 123 -- Ochpaniztli in the Mexican Codex Borbonicus -- CONCLUSION 155 -- NOTES 167 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 209 |
| Summary |
Incorporating human sacrifice, flaying, and mock warfare, the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli, or "Sweeping," has long attracted attention. Although among the best known of eighteen annual Aztec ceremonies, Ochpaniztli's significance has nevertheless been poorly understood. Ochpaniztli is known mainly from early colonial illustrated manuscripts produced in cross-cultural collaboration between Spanish missionary-chroniclers and native Mexican informants and artists. Although scholars typically privilege the manuscripts' textual descriptions, Sweeping the Way examines the fundamental role of their pictorial elements, which significantly expand the information contained in the texts. DiCesare emphasizes the primacy of the regalia, ritual implements, and adornments of the festival patroness as the point of intersection between sacred cosmic forces and ceremonial celebrants. The associations of these paraphernalia indicate that Ochpaniztli was a period of purification rituals designed to transform and protect individual and communal bodies alike. Spanish friars were unable to comprehend the complex nature of the festival's patroness, ultimately fragmenting her identity into categories meeting their expectations, which continues to vex modern investigations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-222) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
Codex Borbonicus. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92024633
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Codex Borbonicus fast |
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Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies
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Aztecs -- Religion.
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Picture-writing -- Mexico
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Human sacrifice -- Mexico
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Aztecs -- Historiography
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RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Aztecs -- Historiography
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Aztecs -- Religion
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Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies
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Human sacrifice
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Picture-writing
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Aztecas -- Religión y mitología.
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Aztecas -- Ritos y ceremonias
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Mexico
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009010833 |
| ISBN |
9780870819728 |
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0870819720 |
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