TY - BOOK ID - 23691789 TI - Encounter with the plumed serpent : drama and power in the heart of Mesoamerica AU - Jansen, Maarten AU - Pérez Jiménez, Gabina Aurora PY - 2007 VL - *8 SN - 9781607327103 1607327104 9780870818684 0870818686 1607326108 PB - Boulder: University press of Colorado, DB - UniCat KW - Manuscripts, Mixtec. KW - Mixtec Indians KW - Historiography. KW - Genealogy. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Mixteca Indians KW - Mixteco Indians KW - Indians of Mexico KW - Mixtec manuscripts KW - Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) KW - Anthropology KW - Deer KW - Lord KW - Monte Albán KW - Toltec UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23691789 AB - 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. ER -