The Mesoamerican Codex Re-Entangled
Production, Use and Re-Use of Pre-Colonial Documents
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2016
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-90-8728-263-9 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative work attempts to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica's precolonial codices. Today less than twenty extant manuscripts are all that remains of the Mesoamerican book-making tradition. These pictographic and hieroglyphic texts have often been studied for their content, but in doing so their nature as physical objects faded into the background. By tracing the paths these books have followed over the past five hundred years, this study acquaints the reader with their production, use and re-use, destruction, rediscovery and reinvention. Even today, in fact, these books continue to add new chapters to their biography. That is, thanks to the most cutting-edge technology currently available, it has now been possible to uncover a completely new text from inside one of these precious and fragile manuscripts.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen, 86 farbige Abbildungen
5 Illustrations, black and white - 86 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 269 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8728-263-9 (9789087282639)
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Person
Ludo Snijders is an archaeologist specialising in Mesoamerican cultures. This work is the result of collaboration with the TU Delft and the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, within the NWO Science4Arts funded project "Shedding light on endangered mutual heritage".
Content
Acknowledgements
Summary
Introduction
1. Materials for Writing
2. The Practice of Codex Making
3. The Lifecycle of the Mesoamerican Codices
4. Demons and Colonization, the Destruction of Written Culture
5. Reproduction of the Codices
6. Recovery of a Hidden Chapter in the Life of Codex Anute
7. Conclusions and Reflections
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
List of Figures
List of Tables
Summary
Introduction
1. Materials for Writing
2. The Practice of Codex Making
3. The Lifecycle of the Mesoamerican Codices
4. Demons and Colonization, the Destruction of Written Culture
5. Reproduction of the Codices
6. Recovery of a Hidden Chapter in the Life of Codex Anute
7. Conclusions and Reflections
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
List of Figures
List of Tables