Research Catalog

Title

Pirámides : montañas sagradas / textos: Colette Almanza Caudillo [and 11 others]

Publication

• Ciudad de México : Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2019.
• ©2019.

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Additional Authors

• Almanza Caudillo, Colette,
• Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico), issuing body.
• Museo Regional de La Laguna, host institution.

Description

135 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

Compendium of research texts that address the vast universe of Pre-Hispanic architecture, from the west to the Gulf coast, and from the center to the southeast and north of s Mexico, its singularities and symbolisms and where 25 authors -mostly archaeologists- broadly address the large pyramid structures of their own areas of study. They all agree that these pyramids can be considered axis mundiʺor the reference from which urban patterns were established, in a spatial distribution that reflected the cosmogony of the construction group. The symbolic burden of the pyramids is intimately linked to the recreation of the so-called 'Mountain of Maintenance', the sacred and mythical space from which the water comes from, both in the form of currents or rivers, and the one generated in the form of rain. It is also the place where the grains are stored to feed the population and the place where the ancestors dwell. The outcome of this research was an itinerant exhibition of the same name.

Series Statement

Museos y galerías

Uniform Title

Museos y galerías.

Subject

• Indian architecture > Mexico
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities
• Indians of Mexico > Architecture
• Indians of Mexico > Pyramids
• Mexico > Antiquities
• Pyramids > Mexico

Note

• Published for the homonymous exhibition held in 2020 at the Museo Regional de la Laguna, MUREL in Torreón, Coahuila.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography at the end of each chapter.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In Spanish.

Contents

Presentación -- Introducción. Pirámides, íconos del paisaje natural y cultural de México / Ana Beltrán Achouche -- Algunas miradas a las pirámides mesoamericanas / Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava y Colette Almanza Caudillo -- Paisaje y arquitectura en el mundo de los habitantes de Michoacán antiguo / José Luis Punzo Díaz -- Las pirámides en el paisaje ritual de Mesoamérica / Johana Broda -- Altepetl: la montaña de agua. Cosmovisión y sistema político del complejo pirámide-agua-cueva / Sergio Gómez Chávez y Julie Gazzola -- Morir en el agua: el camino eterno de K'inich Jannab' Pakal hacia el inframundo / Arnoldo González Cruz y Guillermo Bernal Romero -- Diálogos entre la tierra y el cielo: la pirámide y la arqueoastronomía / Iván prajc y Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava -- La geometría de las pirámides: la lógica formal y constructiva sustentada en el conocimiento profundo de la geometría / Laura Ledesma Gallegos -- Integración plástica en Mesoamérica / María Teresa Uriarte Castañeda -- Secciones -- I. La montaña sagrada -- II. Cerros construidos -- III. Anatomía de la pirámide -- IV. Mirada de los dioses -- V. Protagonista universal, la pirámide en la escena del arte -- Lista de obra.

ISBN

• 9786075393506
• 6075393501

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries