Portraying the Aztec Past - The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin Rajagopalan Angela HerrenPaperback / softback
During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325-1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life,…
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During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325-1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of the sixteenth century continued to use pre-Hispanic pictorial writing systems to record information about native culture. Three of these manuscripts--Codex Boturini, Codex Azcatitlan, and Codex Aubin--document the origin and migration of the Mexica people, one of several indigenous groups often collectively referred to as "Aztec."In Portraying the Aztec Past, Angela Herren Rajagopalan offers a thorough study of these closely linked manuscripts, articulating their narrative and formal connections and examining differences in
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