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Parution : Cave, city, and eagle’s nest : an interpretive journey through the “Mapa de Cuauhtinchan N° 2”

Cave, city, and eagle’s nest : an interpretive journey through the “Mapa de Cuauhtinchan N° 2”

Créateur

  • Scott Sessions is managing editor of the African-American Religion Documentary History Project and research associate at Amherst College.
  • John H. Coatsworth is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and director (1994-2006) of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
  • Davíd Carrasco is Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Divinity School at Harvard University. He was recently awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.

Résumé de l’éditeur

Cave, City, And Eagle’s Nest is the culmination of an international research project and series of conferences, organized by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, focused on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. Painted on bark paper and measuring 109 x 204 centimeters, this extraordinary document contains over seven hundred images and symbols relating the story of the emergence of ancestors at Chicomoztoc (Place of Seven Caves), their migration to the sacred city of Cholula, their foundation and settlement of Cuauhtinchan (Place of the Eagle’s Nest), their community’s history and claim over the surrounding landscape, and many other occurrences along the way.

Dating from around the 1540s, barely two decades after the fall of the Aztecs, the maparecently underwent extensive physical analysis, conservation, and a systematic photographic survey. These rare images–including sixteen full-size sections and a nearly quarter-size facsimile–accompany fifteen richly illustrated essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, its complex narrative, and the social and ritual memory of an indigenous community struggling to hold its own in the turbulent atmosphere of early colonial Mexico.

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Informations pratiques

  • Éditeur : Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico press
  • Date de parution : 2007
  • Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-479-[64] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 31 cm + 1 carte fac-sim. en coul.
  • ISBN 978-0-8263-4283-6 (rel.)

Localisations

  • PARIS-BnF :
    • Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : 2008-257776
    • Tolbiac – Cartes et plans – Salle R – magasin : GE EE-7271
  • PARIS-BIS, Fonds général
  • PARIS-Médiathèque MQB
Cave, city, and eagle’s nest : an interpretive journey through the “Mapa de Cuauhtinchan N° 2”

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Olivier Jacquot (18 septembre 2020). Parution : Cave, city, and eagle’s nest : an interpretive journey through the “Mapa de Cuauhtinchan N° 2” Amoxcalli. Consulté le 16 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/b324


Olivier Jacquot

Chargé de collections : manuscrits des fonds américains, Service des manuscrits ORientaux (SOR), département des Manuscrits (MSS), Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)

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