Western Mesoamerican Calendars And Writing Systems
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Author | : Mikkel Bøg Clemmensen |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2023-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1803274867 |
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Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing. Bringing together new research, papers discuss the writing systems of Teotihuacan, Mixteca Baja, the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic. These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica.
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Elizabeth P. Benson |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884020486 |
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Author | : Ross Hassig |
Publisher | : Univ of TX + ORM |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292797958 |
Download Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This illuminating study offers a radical new understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history. Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history. Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones.
Author | : Elizabeth P. Benson (Kulturhistorikerin) |
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Indians of Central America |
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Author | : Julie Nehammer Knub |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2014-01-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784910511 |
Download Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies spanning the breadth of Mesoamerica, from the Early Classic metropolis of Teotihuacan, to Tenochtitlan, the Late Postclassic capital of the Aztec, and from the arid central Mexican highlands in the west to the humid Maya lowlands in the east.
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Lawrence Kwok Leung Lo presents information about the writing systems of Mesoamerica as part of the Ancient Scripts of the World resource. Lo discusses symbols, headdresses, ceremonial celts, and the writing systems of various Mesoamerican Indian cultures.
Author | : Vincent H. Malmström |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-05-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292743122 |
Download Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmström to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems—the intellectual achievement that gave rise to Mesoamerican civilization and culture. Malmström posits that the 260-day calendar marked the interval between passages of the sun at its zenith over Izapa, an ancient ceremonial center in the Soconusco region of Mexico's Pacific coastal plain. He goes on to show how the calendar developed by the Zoque people of the region in the fourteenth century B.C. gradually diffused through Mesoamerica into the so-called "Olmec metropolitan area" of the Gulf coast and beyond to the Maya in the east and to the plateau of Mexico in the west. These findings challenge our previous understanding of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican civilization. Sure to provoke lively debate in many quarters, this book will be important reading for all students of ancient Mesoamerica—anthropologists, archaeologists, archaeoastronomers, geographers, and the growing public fascinated by all things Maya.
Author | : Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004252363 |
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Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the 52-years calendar. Building upon a comparative analytical model, the book contributes new theoretical insights about ritual practices and temporal philosophies. This comprehensive investigation analyses how ritual practices are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. The temporal ritual practices are systematically analysed in relation to calendar organisation and structure, arithmetic, cosmogony and chronometry, spatial-temporality (cosmology), natural world, eschatology, sociology, politics, and ontology. It is argued that the 260-day calendar has a particular symbolic importance in Mesoamerican temporal philosophies and practices.
Author | : E. P. Benson |
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Release | : 1973 |
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