Research Catalog

Title

Portraying the Aztec past : the codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin / Angela Herren Rajagopalan.

Author

Rajagopalan, Angela Herren

Publication

• Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xii, 198 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.

Summary

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."0In 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.

Series Statement

Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas

Uniform Title

Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.

Subject

• Códice Boturini
• Codex Azcatitlan
• Codex Aubin
• Manuscripts, Nahuatl
• Nahuatl language > Writing
• Aztecs > History
• Aztecs

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.

Contents

Introduction : portraying the Aztec past -- Codex Boturini : a pictographic paradigm -- Master and apprentice : the multiple artistic hands in Codex Azcatitlan -- Don Martín 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.

Call Number

JFF 19-935

ISBN

• 9781477316061
• 147731606X
• 9781477316078
• 1477316078

LCCN

2018003954

OCLC

1022079952

Author

Rajagopalan, Angela Herren, author.

Title

Portraying the Aztec past : the codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin / Angela Herren Rajagopalan.

Publisher

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas

Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.

Sudoc No.

Z UA380.8 R137po txdocs

Research Call Number

JFF 19-935