Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Boone, Elizabeth Hill
Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Boone, Elizabeth Hill

Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous...
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Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Boone, Elizabeth Hill

Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico

€146,27
Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Boone, Elizabeth Hill

Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico

€146,27
Author: Elizabeth Hill Boone
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.

Analyzing 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.



Author: Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01/12/2021
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.26lbs
Size: 11.40h x 9.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781477321676

About the Author
Boone, Elizabeth Hill: - Elizabeth Hill Boone is the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University. She is the author of many books, including Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate and Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs, and the editor or coeditor of eleven books, most recently Painted Words: Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism.
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