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An interdisciplinary study investigating how the name and portrait of Moteuczoma (a.k.a. Moctezuma/Montezuma) II were represented in Aztec monuments and colonial manuscripts and how the concept of fame operated in the Aztec world.

Aztec art. --- Aztecs --- Kings and rulers. --- Montezuma

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Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in Central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the manuscript painting is a singular document of indigenous response to Spanish conquest. Examining the ways in which the folio's tlacuilo (indigenous painter/writer) creates a pictorial vocabulary, this book embraces the place "outside" history from rich this rich document emerged. Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation itself, Josâe Rabasa reveals new perspectives on colonial order. Folio 46r becomes a metaphor for reading the totality of the codex and for reflecting on the postcolonial theoretical issues now brought to bear on the past. Ambitious and innovative (such as the invention of the concepts of elsewhere and ethnosuicide, and the emphasis on intuition), Tell Me the Story of Howl Conquered You embraces the performative force of the native scribe while acknowledging the ineffable traits of 46r-traits that remain untenably foreign to the modern excavator/scholar. Posing provocative questions about the unspoken dialogues between evangelizing friars and their spiritual conquests, this book offers a theoretic-political experiment on the possibility of learning from the tlacuilo ways of seeing the world that dislocate the predominance of the West.

Aztec art. --- Aztecs --- Nahuatl language --- Missions. --- Writing. --- Dominicans --- Franciscans --- Missions --- History. --- Codex Telleriano-Remensis. --- Mexico --- Spain --- History --- Colonies --- Administration.

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Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ("picture writing"), the Codex Xolotl, the Quinatzin Map, and the Tlohtzin Map appear to retain and emphasize both pre-Hispanic content and also pre-Hispanic form, despite being produced almost a generation after the Aztecs surrendered to Hernán Cortés in 1521. Yet, as this pioneering study makes plain, the reality is far more complex. Eduardo de J. Douglas offers a detailed critical analysis and historical contextualization of the manuscripts to argue that colonial economic, political, and social concerns affected both the content of the three Tetzcocan pictorial histories and their archaizing pictorial form. As documents composed by indigenous people to assert their standing as legitimate heirs of the Aztec rulers as well as loyal subjects of the Spanish Crown and good Catholics, the Tetzcocan manuscripts qualify as subtle yet shrewd negotiations between indigenous and Spanish systems of signification and between indigenous and Spanish concepts of real property and political rights. By reading the Tetzcocan manuscripts as calculated responses to the changes and challenges posed by Spanish colonization and Christian evangelization, Douglas's study significantly contributes to and expands upon the scholarship on central Mexican manuscript painting and recent critical investigations of art and political ideology in colonial Latin America.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl --- Aztec art --- Aztecs --- Palaces --- History --- Nezahualcóyotl, --- Homes and haunts --- Codex Xolotl. --- Mapa Quinatzin. --- Mapa Tlohtzin. --- Texcoco de Mora (Mexico) --- Texcoco de Mora (Mexico) --- History --- Antiquities.

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Consideramos que difundir algunos aspectos de una civilizacion tan relevante como la Azteca o Mexica es un primer paso para despertar en el usuario de esta produccion interactiva el interes por profundizar en el conocimiento de un pueblo sorprendente por su valor, organizacion y disciplina.

Condición social --- Condiciones culturales. --- Aborígenes --- Mitología. --- Literatura. --- Cerámica. --- Antropología cultural y social. --- Sociología cultural. --- Historia --- Artes. --- Religión. --- Filosofía. --- Indian art --- Indians of Mexico --- Antiquities. --- Mexico --- Aztecs. --- Aztec art. --- Aztec pottery. --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Condicion social --- Aborigenes --- Mitologia. --- Ceramica. --- Antropologia cultural y social. --- Sociologia cultural. --- Religion. --- Filosofia.