Research Catalog

Title

Anatomie, Genealogie, Kartographie : Studien zu Dokumenten aus dem alten Mexiko / Uta Berger.

Author

Berger, Uta

Publication

Berlin : Peter Lang, 2022.

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Details

Description

188 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 21 cm

Summary

Until the middle of the last century, the human heart was considered the centre of Aztec religious ideas. This body of thought was generally recognized scientifically. For about half a century, the importance of the heart has been discarded in favour of the liver. This publication examines the question of how this new organ interpretation could be justified and refutes it. Three other essays examine ancient Mexican documents. The genealogy of the Huitznahahuac calpulli was modified in the 18th century. The motives for this manipulation are explained. The Mapa de Tamasolco and the Codex Fischer are translated and critically examined with regard to the settlement history, cartography and local politics of 17th century Mexico.

Subject

• John Rylands University Library of Manchester
• Manuscripts, Nahuatl
• Paleography, Nahuatl
• Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)
• Human sacrifice > Mexico
• Aztecs > Social life and customs
• Indians of Mexico > History > Sources
• Human sacrifice
• Indians of Mexico
• Mexico

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes discussion of the Manchester University Library's Fischer Codex (JRL, Mexican MS 2, see pp.71-[116]).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In German; with summaries in English and German.

Contents

Mictlantecuhtli und die aztekische Ikonographie menschlicher Organe / Uta Berger -- Die Codex Fischer / Uta Berger -- Die Karte von Tamasolco / Uta Berger -- Die Huitznahuac calpulli Genealogie und andere Genealogien / Uta Berger und Berthold Riese.

ISBN

• 9783631880500
• 3631880502

OCLC

• on1344530610
• SCSB-14455487

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library