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Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes David Carrasco

Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes By David Carrasco

Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes by David Carrasco

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Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes by David Carrasco

A result of four years of cooperative research between the University of Colorado and the Templo Mayor Project of MexicoAs National Institute of Anthropology and History, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (formerly available as To Change Place) offers new interpretive models from the fields of archaeoastronomy, history of religion, anthropology, art history, and archaeology. Included are contributions by such noted experts as Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, DavA-d Carrasco, Alfredo LA pez Austin, Doris Heyden, Richard F. Townsend, Anthony Aveni, Henry B. Nicholson, Elizabeth Boone, Felipe Solis, and Johanna Broda, with a new introduction by William Fash.

About David Carrasco

David Carrasco is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, professor of history of religions at Harvard University, editor of UPC's Mesoamerican Worlds series and editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. His works include Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage, Moctezuma's Mexico, Waiting for the Dawn, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (University Press of Colorado), and City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (Beacon).

Table of Contents

; Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Fash; William L.; Preface; Moctezuma; Eduardo Matos; Acknowledgments; Carrasco; David; Introduction: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes; Carrasco; David; Part I:; New Discoveries at El Templo Mayor, Tlatelolco, and Mt. Tlaloc; 1; Notes on the Oldest Sculpture of El Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan; Moctezuma; Eduardo Matos; 2; A Study of Skeletal Materials from Tlatelolco; Berrelleza; Juan Alberto Roman; 3; Discovery of a Painted Mural at Tlatelolco; Arroyo; Salvador Guil'liem; 4; The Mt. Tlaloc Project; Townsend; Richard F.; Part II:; Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes; 5; The Sacrifice of Tezcatlipoca: To Change Place; Carrasco; David; 6; Mapping the Ritual Landscape: Debt Payment to Tlaloc During the Month of Atlcahualo; Aveni; Anthony F.; 7; The Sacred Landscape of Aztec Calendar Festivals: Myth, Nature, and Society; Broda; Johanna; 8; Migration Histories as Ritual Performance; Boone; Elizabeth Hill; 9; The Myth of the Half-Man Who Descended from the Sky; Austin; Alfredo Lopez; 10; The Octli Cult in Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico; Nicholson; Henry B.; 11; Dryness Before the Rains: Toxcatl and Tezcatlipoca; Heyden; Doris; Part III:; Changing Voices; 12; Reflection on the Miraculous Waters of Tenochtitlan; Sullivan; Lawrence E.; 13; Vamos a Rezar a San Marcos: A Tlapanec Pilgrimage; van der Loo; Peter L.; 14; Eating Landscape: Human Sacrifice and Sustenance in Aztec Mexico; Arnold; Philip P.; 15; Religious Rationalization and the Conversions of the Nahuas: Social Organization and Colonial Epistemology; de Alva; J. Jorge Klor; 16; Remnants of the Shaman; Day; Jane Stevenson; Index;

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GOR013742658
9780870815096
0870815091
Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes by David Carrasco
David Carrasco
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University Press of Colorado
1999-03-15
288
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