Follow Little Andrea as she discovers her family heritage and the Day of the Dead, the origins of the holiday, what it means to Mexican families, and how it has grown and expanded in The Dia de Los Muertos Story....Loe edasi...
Valentina Vapnarsky, Dominique Michelet, Aurore Monod Becquelin, Philippe Nondédéo
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646426805)
A multidisciplinary approach to the temporal ritual activities in prehispanic, colonial, and modern times of Mesoamerican societies. Unfolds an analysis of data relative to the artifactual, gestural, discursive, and scriptural temporal patterns of r...Loe edasi...
Valentina Vapnarsky, Dominique Michelet, Aurore Monod Becquelin, Philippe Nondédéo
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646426812)
Temporalities in Mesoamerican Ritual Practices examines the time-based dimensions of ritual activities in past and present Mesoamerican societies, including the prehispanic, colonial, and modern periods. Temporalities in Meso...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781636679754)
This book explores Carlos de Sigüenzas curious investiture of the viceroy with royal immortality and two bodies in Teatro de virtudes (1680). It provides evidence of inclusion in the Mexica dynasty as its restorative successor aspired to bridge the...Loe edasi...
Tenochtitlan enjoyed a meteoric rise to power beginning in the fourteenth century, when its leaders transformed it into the political, economic, and spiritual center of the Mexica. Even after its rulership was decapitated following the Spanish invasi...Loe edasi...
Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you wont believe theyre all true An invisible tremor ran through the Aztecs on the rooftops, a breathless gasp of excitement. On the edge of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463721394)
1. I emphasize the agency of the native Mexican artist-scribes largely responsible for creating the festival scenes, beginning with a close visual analysis of the work and privileging the Borbonicus imagery above extant colonial textual accounts that...Loe edasi...
From being sacrificed to the gods through fighting brutal battles, daily life in Aztec times was pretty deadly!Readers will love digging up the past and finding out just how horrible it was in this gripping read. Primary so...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197586358)
In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric, and Aristotelian philosophy to native youths in central Mexico. The remarkable linguistic and cultural exchanges that wo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813069920)
This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Pre-Columbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manuscript’s intricate and colorful imagery conveys complex ideas related to Mesoamerican myths and r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108498999)
Susan Kelloggs history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, religion, and intellectual and artistic developme...Loe edasi...
This book sheds new light on the Aztec civilization by correcting common misperceptions and highlighting their language, economy, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments. An innovative and accessible text for those interested in new idea...Loe edasi...
