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  title info:
    title: Portraying the Aztec past
    sub title: the codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin
  name:
    name part: Rajagopalan, Angela Herren
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
  abstract: 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 format, style and communicative strategies. Through analyses that focus on the materials, stylistic traits, facture and narrative qualities of the codices, she places these annals in their historical and social contexts. Her work adds to our understanding of the production and function of these manuscripts and explores how Mexica identity is presented and framed after the conquest.
  table of contents: Introduction : portraying the Aztec past -- Codex Boturini : a pictographic paradigm -- Master and apprentice : the multiple artistic hands in Codex Azcatitlan -- Don Martin Ecatzin : Codex Azcatitlan's cosmic hero -- Traitors, intrigue, and the cosmic cycle in Codex Azcatitlan -- Codex Aubin and the influence of printed books -- Conclusion : central Mexican manuscript painting in transition -- Epilogue. Life after production -- Appendix 1. Translation of the Nahuatl glosses in Codex Azcatitlan -- Appendix 2. translation of the Nahuatl text in Codex Aubin.
  note: Angela Herren Rajagopalan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Códice Boturini
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Codex Azcatitlan
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Codex Aubin
  subject:
    topic: Manuscripts, Nahuatl
  subject:
    topic: Nahuatl language
    topic: Writing
  subject:
    topic: Aztecs
    topic: History
  classification: F1219.54.A98 R34 2018
  classification: 972
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas
  identifier: 9781477316061
  identifier: 147731606X
  identifier: 9781477316078
  identifier: 1477316078
  identifier: 9781477316085
  identifier: 9781477316092
  identifier: 2018003954
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180130
    record change date: 20190422104512.0
    record identifier: in00004032864