The Mesoamerican Codex Re-Entangled: Production, Use and Re-Use of Pre-Colonial Documents

ISBN-13: 9789087282639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str.

Ludo Snijders

Opis

This innovative work aims to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica s precolonial codices. Today, fewer than twenty manuscripts are all that remain of the Mesoamerican book-making tradition. These pictographic and hieroglyphic texts have often been researched according to their content, but such studies have ignored their nature as material objects. By tracing the paths these books have followed over the past five hundred years, Ludo Snijders offers fascinating insights into their production, use and reuse, destruction, rediscovery, and reinvention."

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Summary
Introduction
1. Materials for Writing
2. The Practice of Codex Making
3. The Lifecycle of the Mesoamerican Codices
4. Demons and Colonization, the Destruction of Written Culture
5. Reproduction of the Codices
6. Recovery of a Hidden Chapter in the Life of Codex Añute
7. Conclusions and Reflections
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
List of Figures
List of Tables