Licenciatura : La convención plástica prehispánica en la representación de las mantas del Códice Mendocino
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Carnet de veille sur les codex américains (Amérique du Nord et Méso-Amérique)
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Créateur Résumé This thesis studies the way interpretations of a pre-colonial past drive the formation of Mexico as an imagined community. In particular, my study considers how foreign and local travelers and intellectuals from the 18-20th centuries bring meaning (resemanticize)...
Créateur Résumé This dissertation examines a complex negotiation of textualities that took place in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century New Spain. Focusing on ethnohistoric texts authored by Fray Toribio Motolinia and bibliographic objects from sixteenth-century Mesoamerica, this dissertation examines Native and Indigenous...
Créateur Résumé The Codex Xolotl, a sixteenth-century painted manuscript made in the Valley of Mexico, is a prime example of Nahua history-writing and map-making. It exhibits hundreds of individual scenes of pre-Invasion history over the course of ten pages of native paper. The...
Créateur Résumé This dissertation contributes to the study of communication design and data visualization by analyzing a set of ancient pictorial manuscripts. It is also aligned with the literature of pictorial statistics, most notably Isotype according to the Vienna Method....
Créateur Résumé This thesis examines the complexities of Aztec religion throughout the Aztec Empire (1350 – 1521 AD) to evaluate potential monotheistic tendencies. This thesis uses Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl’s theory on Tloque Nahuaque and Miguel León-Portilla’s theory on Ometéotl to examine...
Créateur Résumé Devotional literature such as origin narratives, prayer cycles, and hagiographic narratives have long served as vital sources of sociocultural and political information since Mexico’s colonial period. This dissertation specifically examines origin stories and their images in Mexico as...