The complete codex Zouche-Nuttall : Mixtec lineage histories and political biographies
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The complete codex Zouche-Nuttall : Mixtec lineage histories and political biographies
(The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies)
University of Texas Press, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-329) and index
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Description
The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the codices served as outlines of oral traditions to stimulate the memories of bards who knew the complete narratives, which were sung, danced, and performed at elite functions. Centuries later we have limited access to those original performances, and all that remains for our codex interpretation is what is painted on the pages-perhaps five to ten percent of their memory-encoded information.
Continuing the pioneering interpretation he began in Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca, Robert Lloyd Williams offers an authoritative guide to the entire contents of the codex in The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall. Although the reverse document (pages 42-84) has been described in previous literature, the obverse document (pages 1-41) has not been, and it has remained elusive as to narrative. The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall elucidates the three sections of the codex, defines them as to function and content, and provides interpretive and descriptive essays about the Native American history the codex recorded prior to the arrival of Europeans in Mexico and the New World generally. With a full-color reproduction of the entire Codex Zouche-Nuttall and Williams's expert guidance in unlocking its narrative strategies and structures, The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall opens an essential window into the Mixtec social and political cosmos.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Rex Koontz
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The First Historian of the New World
Chapter 2. Historiography and Native History
Chapter 3. Reading Techniques
Chapter 4. Document 1 (Obverse), Part 1, Pages 1-13: Lord Eight Wind
Chapter 5. Document 1 (Obverse), Part IIA, Pages 14-19: The Ladies Three Flint
Chapter 6. Document 1 (Obverse), Part IIA continued, Pages 20-21: The War from Heaven and Lady One Death
Chapter 7. Document 1 (Obverse), Part IIB, Pages 22-35: Genealogies
Chapter 8. Document 1 (Obverse), Part IIIA-B, Pages 36-41: The Four Lords from Apoala
Chapter 9. Document 1 (Obverse): Discussion and Interpretation
Chapter 10. Document 2 (Reverse), Pages 42-84: Introduction to the Political Biography of Eight Deer Jaguar Claw of Tilantongo
Chapter 11. Document 2 (Reverse), Sections 1-6, Pages 42-50: Parentage Statement, Childhood Military Career, Chalcatongo Event, Transition from Chalcatongo to Tututepec, Eight Deer as Lord of Tututepec.
Chapter 12. Document 2 (Reverse), Sections 7-12, Pages 51-74: Eight Deer's Toltec Alliance through the Conquests with the Toltecs
Chapter 13. Document 2 (Reverse), Sections 13-14, Pages 75-84: The Battle in the Sky through the Siege of Hua Chino
Chapter 14. The Four Voices of Mixtec History
Appendix 1. The Mixtec Calendar
Appendix 2. Occurrence of 260-Day Sacred Calendars in the 365-Day Mixtec Solar Calendar
Appendix 3. The Cycle of 260 Days (Tonalpohualli)
Appendix 4. The Calendrics of Codex Zouche-Nuttall Pages 42-84
Appendix 5. The Mixtec Calendar Cycle Correspondences from Byland and Pohl (1994)
Appendix 6. The Complete Mixtec/Aztec Calendar
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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