Aztec religion and art of writing : investigating embodied meaning, indigenous semiotics, and the Nahua sense of reality /

In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, on...

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Main Author: Laack, Isabel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Studies in the history of religions ; vol. 161.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Methodology -- Living in cultural diversity -- Living in relation: being human in Tenochtitlan -- A world in motion: Nahua ontology -- Understanding a world in motion: Nahua epistemology -- Interacting with a world in motion: Nahua pragmatism and aesthetics -- Expressing reality in language: Nahua linguistic theory -- Materializing reality in writing: Nahua pictography -- Unterstanding pictography: interpreting Nahua semiotics -- Interpretative results: Nahua religion, scripture, and sense of reality. 
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