Descendants of Aztec Pictography : The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boone, Elizabeth Hill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aztecs--Mexico--Encyclopedias--16th century--History and criticism.

Aztecs.

Aztecs--Mexico--Encyclopedias--16th century--Authorship.

Aztecs--Mexico--Encyclopedias--16th century--Pictorial works.

Picture-writing--Mexico--16th century.

Picture-writing.

Nahuatl language--Writing--History.

Nahuatl language.

Mexico.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2020]

Summary:

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture.0Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Paintings from the Past

Chapter 2. Graphic Complexity in New Spain

Chapter 3. The Encyclopedic Tradition in Europe

Chapter 4. The Evangelical Project and Mendicant Investigators

Chapter 5. Early Compilations: Codices Borbonicus and Mendoza

Chapter 6. The Mid-Century Encyclopedias: Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Ríos and the Magliabechiano Group

Chapter 7. Durán and Sahagún: Cumulative Expositions of the Late Sixteenth Century

Chapter 8. Memories in Figures

Notes

References Cited

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477329351

1477329358

OCLC:

1396426476