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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
vol. 161. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.