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In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled 'General History of the Things of New Spain', known as the 'Florentine Codex' (1575-1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas. In this edited volume, experts from multiple disciplines analyze the manuscript's bilingual texts and more than 2,000 painted images and offer fascinating, new insights on its twelve books. The contributors examine the "three texts" of the codex-the original Nahuatl, its translation into Spanish, and its painted images. Together, these constitute complementary, as well as conflicting, voices of an extended dialogue that occurred in and around Mexico City. The volume chapters address a range of subjects, from Nahua sacred beliefs, moral discourse, and natural history to the Florentine artists' models and the manuscript's reception in Europe. 'The Florentine Codex' ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire.

Manuscripts, Mexican. --- Manuscripts, Nahuatl. --- Aztecs --- History --- Códice florentino. --- Mexico --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Nahuas --- Manuscripts, Aztec --- Nahuatl manuscripts --- Mexican manuscripts --- Codex Florentinus --- Florentine codex --- Manuscrito florentino --- Sequera manuscript --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- 1500-1599

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In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging the belief that indigenous movements emerge as isolated, politically unified fronts, she shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. She explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority and also examines the movement's many domestic and foreign critics. The book focuses on the years of Guatemala's peace process (1987--1996). After the previous ten years of national war and state repression, the Maya movement reemerged into public view to press for institutional reform in the schools and courts and for the officialization of a "multicultural, ethnically plural, and multilingual" national culture. In particular, Warren examines a group of well-known Mayanist antiracism activists--among them, Demetrio Cojt!, Mart!n Chacach, Enrique Sam Colop, Victor Montejo, members of Oxlajuuj Keej Maya' Ajtz'iib', and grassroots intellectuals in the community of San Andr s--to show what is at stake for them personally and how they have worked to promote the revitalization of Maya language and culture. Pan-Mayanism's critics question its tactics, see it as threatening their own achievements, or even as dangerously polarizing national society. This book highlights the crucial role that Mayanist intellectuals have come to play in charting paths to multicultural democracy in Guatemala and in creating a new parallel middle class.

Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- #SBIB:328H32 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Mexico --- Government relations --- Ethnic identity --- Politics and government --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden en Latijns-Amerika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Guatemala --- Sociology of minorities --- Community organization --- Guatemala. --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Government relations. --- Ethnic identity. --- Politics and government. --- Black Legend. --- Bourgois, Philippe. --- Catholic Action. --- Chávez, Adrián. --- Commission on Sacred Sites. --- Concepción. --- Farriss, Nancy. --- Florentine Codex. --- Gudeman, Steve. --- Hanks, William. --- Hispanization. --- Iximulew. --- Ladinoization. --- Ladinos. --- activism, Ixim family and. --- agrarian reform. --- amnesty program. --- anthropology. --- antiracism narratives. --- assimilation. --- brutality, Spanish. --- campesinos. --- chronicles, Spanis. --- cooperative movement. --- cultural capital. --- culture loss. --- democracy. --- divining. --- ecology. --- education. --- essentialism. --- ethnic mobilizing. --- federalism. --- fieldwork. --- gender issue. --- globalization. --- historical consciousness. --- human rights. --- identity politics. --- identity transformation. --- indigenous movements. --- individualism, and ethnicity. --- internalization of violence. --- intolerance, religious. --- kaibiles. --- kaxlan. --- land issues. --- linguistics. --- marriage negotiation. --- master of the mountain. --- militarization of civilian life. --- mythistories.