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1 online resource (xxvii, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture |
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Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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| Contents |
1. Containers of the knowledge of the world -- 2. Time, the ritual calendar, and divination -- 3. The symbolic vocabulary of the almanacs -- 4. Structures of prophetic knowledge -- 5. The almanacs -- Multipurpose almanacs -- Directional almanacs -- Topical almanacs -- 6. Protocols for rituals -- 7. The cosmogony in the Codex Borgia -- 8. Provenience -- 9. A Mexican divinatory system -- Appendix. Content summaries |
| Summary |
"In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers an explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces, and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy - the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) 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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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Aztec mythology.
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Aztec calendar.
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Manuscripts, Nahuatl -- Mexico
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Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies
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SCIENCE -- Time.
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Aztec calendar
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Aztec mythology
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Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies
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Manuscripts, Nahuatl
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Aztekisk tideräkning.
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Azteker -- mytologi.
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Azteker -- riter och ceremonier.
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006031150 |
| ISBN |
9780292795280 |
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0292795289 |
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