Circling the Square: How the Conquest Altered the Shape of Time in Mesoamerica Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 102, Part

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Since antiquity, time in the West has been represented in circular form, the gear wheels of time churning out duration in endless years. At the time of the Spanish conquest, dials on round clock faces looked down from facades of cathedrals, their tones chiming out the hours that directed people's religious and workaday lives. Spanish chroniclers assert that the circle was also the principal mode of temporal expression among the New World natives they...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1606180258

ISBN13:9781606180259

Release Date:January 2012

Publisher:American Philosophical Society Press

Length:116 Pages

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