The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Mesoamerican peoples living under Spanish colonial rule produced a gre ...
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 223 sounds of the native languages, though features such as tone and v ...
224 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 6.1 This Classic Mayan relief sculpture, carved at the ancient city of Palenque in A.D. 7 ...
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 225 Figure 6.2 Codex Borgia. On this page of the screen- fold book are ...
226 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 6.3 Codex Laud.A page from the marriage prognostication tables. Reprinted with permission ...
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 227 Figure 6.4 The frontispiece of the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer,depicting ...
228 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 6.5 This scene from the Codex Vienna depicts part of the story of Nine Wind, the Mixtec e ...
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 229 Figure 6.6 Codex Dresden.Venus rises in the east as morning star. ...
230 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA government tolerated and even encouraged the maintenance of these traditions, for a lot of infor ...
Figure 6.7 A page from the Codex Aubin,a year-count chronicling Mexica history from A.D. 1168 to 1608. This page records events ...
ethnographic research in 1533. Box 6.1 provides an example of one of these calen- drical codices from the Colonial period. The C ...
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 233 Box 6.1 Codex Borbonicus One of the earliest colonial codices is t ...
234 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA A later section of the Borbonicusconsists of depictions of the ceremonies performed for the mont ...
235 Figure 6.11 Drawing of the frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza.The main scene represents the founding of the Mexica (Aztec) ca ...
The greatest monument of sixteenth-century ethnography is the work of a Fran- ciscan friar named Bernardino de Sahagún. From the ...
anywhere in the Americas and the most complete description of a native American cul- ture created before the advent of professio ...
238 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA However, since the texts were transcribed during the Colonial period, we can never rule out the ...
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 239 and could no longer perform the text in its traditional ritual con ...
240 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA yellow corn, ground up by a female deity and mixed with water in which she has rinsed her hands: ...
CHAPTER 6 INDIGENOUS LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL MESOAMERICA 241 vices such as metaphors and parallel constructions. The speeches w ...
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