The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall: Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies by Williams, Robert Lloyd

The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall: Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies

The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of...
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The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall: Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies by Williams, Robert Lloyd

The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall: Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies

Dhs. 531.98

The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall: Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies

Dhs. 531.98
Author: Robert Lloyd Williams
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the codices served as outlines of oral traditions to stimulate the memories of bards who knew the complete narratives, which were sung, danced, and performed at elite functions. Centuries later we have limited access to those original performances, and all that remains for our codex interpretation is what is painted on the pages--perhaps five to ten percent of their memory-encoded information.

Continuing the pioneering interpretation he began in Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca, Robert Lloyd Williams offers an authoritative guide to the entire contents of the codex in The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall. Although the reverse document (pages 42-84) has been described in previous literature, the obverse document (pages 1-41) has not been, and it has remained elusive as to narrative. The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall elucidates the three sections of the codex, defines them as to function and content, and provides interpretive and descriptive essays about the Native American history the codex recorded prior to the arrival of Europeans in Mexico and the New World generally. With a full-color reproduction of the entire Codex Zouche-Nuttall and Williams's expert guidance in unlocking its narrative strategies and structures, The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall opens an essential window into the Mixtec social and political cosmos.



Author: Robert Lloyd Williams
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 05/15/2013
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780292744387


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2013

About the Author
ROBERT LLOYD WILLIAMSWilliams has studied the Mixtec codices since the 1980s and taught courses on them in the Mixtec Codex Workshop, which he cofounded with John M. D. Pohl, for twelve years. He is presently Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University-San Marcos.


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