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Mixtec Indians --- Indiens mixtèques --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Indiens mixtèques

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The Mixtec, or the people of 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. This book presents and interprets 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 codices, which have been fragmented and dispersed in far-flung archives, the authors attempt to reconstruct Mixtec history. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Perez Jimenez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history.

Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Mixtec Indians --- Historiography. --- Genealogy. --- Social life and customs. --- Mixteca Indians --- Mixteco Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Anthropology --- Deer --- Lord --- Monte Albán --- Toltec

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The Mixtec civilization (of Oaxaca, Mexico) is one of the most interesting to survive from pre-colonial Mesoamerica. Among its characteristic products were highly artistic pictographic codices depicting the history and dynasties of its city-states. This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico, outlines the history of their decipherment, current questions, discussions and methodologies relating to readings, social organisation, religion and historical drama, and surveys the six centuries of Mixtec history covered in the texts.

Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Picture-writing --- Mixtec language --- Mixtec Indians --- Writing. --- History. --- Mexico --- History --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Writing --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Inscriptions --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Manuscripts, Mixtec --- 003.32 --- 091 <4> --- 091 <72> --- 091 <73> --- 091 =97 --- 809.7 --- 809.7 Amerikaanse talen. Amerikaanse Indianentalen --- Amerikaanse talen. Amerikaanse Indianentalen --- 003.32 Ideografische en logografische schriften --- Ideografische en logografische schriften --- 091 <72> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Mexico --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Mexico --- 091 <73> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 091 <4> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Europa --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Europa --- 091 =97 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Talen uit Noord-Amerika en Centraal-Amerika --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Talen uit Noord-Amerika en Centraal-Amerika