Painted books and indigenous knowledge in Mesoamerica : manuscript studies in honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith / edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone

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Author
Smith, Mary Elizabeth 1932 Aug. 2-
Boone, Elizabeth Hill
Subject
Smith, Mary Elizabeth 1932 Aug. 2-
"This volume of papers stems from a symposium held at Tulane University on April 3-5, 1998, to honor Mary Elizabeth (Betsy) Smith"--Introd.
Contents
In Tlamatinime : the wise men and women of Aztec Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Female deities of divination in the Aztec Tonalamatl / Eloise Quiñones Keber -- The bodies of the gods : as seen in cult images made of wood in the pictorial codices / Doris Heyden -- Flaying, curing, and shedding : some thoughts on the Aztec god Xipe Totec / Jill Leslie Furst -- Betsy and her "new testament" : the infectious influence of excellence. A study of the technological and symbolic implications encoded in Aztec textile motifs / Patricia R. Anawalt -- Place glyphs and polity boundaries : two Zapotec cases / Joyce Marcus -- The arroyo group lintel painting at Mitla, Oaxaca / John M.D. Pohl -- Roads as connectors in Mixtec pictorial histories / Nicholas Johnson -- Ce acatl nacxitl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl of Tollan = 4 jaguar of "cattail frieze" and military ally of 8 deer "jaguar claw"? / H.B. Nicholson -- The Toltec countdown / Munro S. Edmonson -- Renewal ceremonies in the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail -- Astronomical references in the water tables on pages 69 to 74 of the Dresden Codex / Victoria R. Bricker and Harvey M. Bricker -- Solar associations of hummingbird images in the Maya codices / Merideth Paxton -- Yerbas y hechicerías del Yucatán : colonial and contemporary plant use in Yucatan, Mexico / Marianna Appel Kunow -- Ada/opting the Mayan hieroglyphs as part of twentieth-century Guatemalan Mayan texts / Judith M. Maxwell -- Colonial Mexican calendar wheels : cultural translation and the problem of "authenticity" / Susan Spitler -- The reordering of space in sixteenth-century Mexico : some implications of the grid / Ellen T. Baird -- Painting colonial Mexico : the appropriation of European iconography in Mexican manuscript painting / Lori Boornazian Diel -- Secularizing for survival : changing depictions of central Mexican native rule in the early colonial period / William L. Barnes -- Reading women into Mixtec writings / Kevin Terraciano -- At home in the world : Mixtec elites and the Teozacoalco map-genealogy / Barbara E. Mundy --The Codex Muro as a land document / Mary Elizabeth Smith -- Mixtec codices and the transition from noble estates to corporate communities in the nineteenth century / John Monaghan -- A new Techialoyan codex from San Pedro Tototepec (Toluca, State of Mexico) / Xavier Noguez
2005
Type
Congresses
Physical description
xiii, 446 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Manuscripts, Mixtec
History
Record ID
siris_sil_824705
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0