Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca: Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall
(Part of the The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies Series)
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In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed histories...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0292725736
ISBN13:9780292725737
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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