Mesoamerica's classic heritage : from Teotihuacan to the Aztecs
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Mesoamerica's classic heritage : from Teotihuacan to the Aztecs
（Mesoamerican worlds）
University Press of Colorado, 2002, c2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E.750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures, including our own. Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this ancient city. This new volume is the product of several years of research by members of Princeton University's Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project and Mexico's Proyecto Teotihuacan. Offering a variety of disciplinary perspectives including the history of religions, anthropology, archaeology, and art history and a wealth of new data, Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage examines Teotihuacan's rippling influence across Mesoamerican time and space, including important patterns of continuity and change, and its relationships, both historical and symbolic, with Tenochtitlan, Cholula, and various Maya communities.
The contributors to Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage offer a wide range of individual interpretations, but they agree that Teotihuacan, more than any other pre-Hispanic center, was a paradigmatic source that formed the art and architecture, cosmology and ritual life, and conceptions of urbanism and political authority for significant parts of the Mesoamerican world. This great city achieved the prestige of being the site of the creation of the cosmos and of effective social and political space in Mesoamerica through its capacity to symbolize, perform, and export its imperial authority. These essays reveal the different ways in which Teotihuacan's classic heritage both fed and fed on the dynamic interactivity of the entire area. Whether or not a paradigm shift in Mesoamerican studies is taking place, certainly a new contextual understanding of Teotihuacan and the diversities and unities of Mesoamerica is emerging in these pages.
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Reimagining the Classic Heritage in Mesoamerica: Continuities and Fractures in Time, Space, and Scholarship
- Carrasco
- David
- Jones
- Lindsay
- Sessions
- Scott
- PART I:
- The Paradigm Shifts in Mesoamerican Studies
- 1.
- The Myth and Reality of Zuyua: The Feathered Serpent and Mesoamerican Transformations from the Classic to the Postclassic
- Austin
- Alfredo Lopez
- Lujan
- Leonardo Lopez
- PART II:
- Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Time and History
- 2.
- The Construction of the Underworld in Central Mexico
- Manzanilla
- Linda
- 3.
- Teotihuacan as an Origin for Postclassic Feathered Serpent Symbolism
- Sugiyama
- Saburo
- 4.
- The Iconography of the Feathered Serpent in Late Postclassic Central Mexico
- Nicholson
- H. B.
- 5.
- From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: City Planning, Caves, and Streams of Red and Blue Waters
- Heyden
- Doris
- 6.
- From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: Their Great Temples
- Moctezuma
- Eduardo Matos
- 7.
- Teotihuacan Cultural Traditions Transmitted into the Postclassic According to Recent Excavations
- Castro
- Ruben Cabrera
- 8.
- The 9-Xi Vase: A Classic Thin Orange Vessel Found at Tenochtitlan
- Lujan
- Leonardo Lopez
- Neff
- Hector
- Sugiyama
- Saburo
- PART III:
- Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Space and Sacred Geography
- 9.
- Out of Teotihuacan: Origins of the Celestial Canon in Mesoamerica
- Aveni
- Anthony F.
- 10.
- The Turquoise Hearth: Fire, Self-Sacrifice, and the Central Mexican Cult of War
- Taube
- Karl
- 11.
- Tollan Cholollan and the Legacy of Legitimacy During the Classic-Postclassic Transition
- McCafferty
- Geoffrey G.
- PART IV:
- Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Scholarship and Intellectual History
- 12.
- Venerable Place of Beginnings: The Aztec Understanding of Teotihuacan
- Boone
- Elizabeth H.
- 13.
- Calendrics and Ritual Landscape at Teotihuacan: Themes of Continuity in Mesoamerican "Cosmovision"
- Broda
- Johanna
- 14.
- Teotihuacan and the Maya: A Classic Heritage
- Fash
- William L.
- Fash
- Barbara W.
- 15.
- "The Arrival of Strangers": Teotihuacan and Tollan in Classic Maya History
- Stuart
- David
- 16.
- Parallel Consumptive Cosmologies
- Arnold
- Philip P.
- Editors and Contributors
- Index
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