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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Encounter with the Plumed Serpent
    sub title: Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica
  name:
    name part: Aurora Pérez Jimenez, Gabina.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Janssen, Maarten.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: University Press of Colorado
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: The Mixtec, or the people of Ñuu Savi ('Nation of the Rain God'), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. In Encounter with the Plumed Serpent, two leading scholars present and interpret the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscripts in existence. In these screenfold books, ancient painter-historians chronicled the politics of the Mixtec from approximately a.d. 900 to 1521, portraying the royal families, rituals, wars, alliances, and ideology of the times. By analyzing and cross-referencing the codices, which have been fragmented and dispersed in far-flung archives, the authors attempt to reconstruct Mixtec history. Their synthesis here builds on long examination of the ancient manuscripts. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Pérez Jiménez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history. Archaeologists and other scholars as well as readers with an interest in Mesoamerican cultures will find this lavishly illustrated volume a compelling and fascinating history and a major step forward in knowledge of the Mixtec.
  table of contents: Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Mat and the Throne -- Storytelling and Ritual -- Descent of the Plumed Serpent -- Founding Mothers -- The Rise of Ñuu Tnoo -- Lord of the Toltecs -- Triumph and Tragedy -- Flute of the Divine -- The Crown of Motecuhzoma -- Notes -- References -- Index
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
  subject:
    topic: social sciences
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
  classification: 305.897/63
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    title info:
      title: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)
    origin info:
      publisher: OAPEN
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    title info:
      title: Books at JSTOR: Open Access
    origin info:
      publisher: JSTOR
  identifier: 9781607327103
  identifier: 1607327104
  identifier: 9780870818684
  identifier: 0870818686
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: UEJ
    record creation date: 200111
    record change date: 20250127193538.9
    record identifier: in00005615004
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng