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The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts
This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
Encounter with the Plumed Serpent
The Mixtec, or the people of Ñuu Savi ('Nation of the Rain God'), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. In Encounter with the Plumed Serpent, two leading scholars present and interpret the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscripts in existence. In these screenfold books, ancient painter-historians chronicled the politics of the Mixtec from approximately a.d. 900 to 1521, portraying the royal families, rituals, wars, alliances, and ideology of the times. By analyzing and cross-referencing ...
The Social and Linguistic Heritage of Native Peoples in the Americas
This book brings together ten essays relating to the manner in which postcolonial research is conducted and information put forth on the representation of indigenous cultures in the Americas. Divided into three parts, Part One describes the current state of affairs of postcolonial studies in the North American region; Part Two explores Mesoamerican culture, and Nuu Savi and Zapotec studies in particular; and Part Three looks at the Andean region.
Culture politiche e mutamento nelle società complesse
La ventata di disaffezione e sfiducia verso i partiti e le istituzioni politiche che stiamo vivendo in Italia soggiace a dinamiche e tendenze che sono più ampie e meno episodiche del contesto nazionale. Il volume prende in esame la crisi di autorevolezza
