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Nahuatl language --- Indians of Mexico --- Aztèques --- Langues indiennes d'Amérique --- Writing. --- Languages --- Writing --- Ecriture --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Aztecs --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- náhuatl --- escritura --- lingüística --- codex

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In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality.0Laack transcends the concept of "sacred scripture" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. 0This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas.

Nahuatl language --- Nahuas --- Aztec cosmology. --- Writing. --- Religion. --- Aztecs --- Aztec cosmology --- 299.77 --- Cosmology, Aztec --- Cosmology --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- 299.77 Godsdiensten van de Middenamerikaanse Indianen: Mexicanen; Azteken; Tolteken; Tzapoteken; Maya's --- Godsdiensten van de Middenamerikaanse Indianen: Mexicanen; Azteken; Tolteken; Tzapoteken; Maya's --- Writing --- Religion

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Manuscripts, Mexican --- Aztecs --- Aztec mythology --- Manuscrits mexicains --- Aztèques --- Mythologie aztèque --- Facsimiles --- Writing --- Fac-similés --- Ecriture --- Mexico --- Mexique --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- 091.07 --- 091 <456.31> --- Handschriften: facsimile's --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Vaticaanstad. Kerkelijke Staat --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Aztec mythology. --- Nahuatl language --- Writing. --- Codex Borgianus. --- 091 <456.31> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Vaticaanstad. Kerkelijke Staat --- 091.07 Handschriften: facsimile's --- Aztèques --- Mythologie aztèque --- Fac-similés --- Antiquités --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- Codices, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Mexican manuscripts (Pre-Columbian) --- Picture-writing, Indian --- Mythology, Aztec --- Codex Mexicanus Borgianus --- Codice borgiano --- Codice messicano borgiano --- Codex Borgia --- Códice Borgia --- Codex de Velletri

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During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325–1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of the sixteenth century continued to use pre-Hispanic pictorial writing systems to record information about native culture. Three of these manuscripts—Codex Boturini, Codex Azcatitlan, and Codex Aubin—document the origin and migration of the Mexica people, one of several indigenous groups often collectively referred to as “Aztec.” In Portraying the Aztec Past, Angela Herren Rajagopalan offers a thorough study of these closely linked manuscripts, articulating their narrative and formal connections and examining differences in format, style, and communicative strategies. Through analyses that focus on the materials, stylistic traits, facture, and narrative qualities of the codices, she places these annals in their historical and social contexts. Her work adds to our understanding of the production and function of these manuscripts and explores how Mexica identity is presented and framed after the conquest.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl. --- Nahuatl language --- Aztecs --- Writing. --- History. --- Códice Boturini. --- Codex Azcatitlan. --- Codex Aubin. --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- Manuscripts, Aztec --- Nahuatl manuscripts --- Writing --- Códice Aubin --- Nican Ycuiliuh --- Codex de quinze cent soixante-seize --- Codex de 1576 --- Códice jeroglífico Aubin --- Códice Azcatitlan --- Codex Boturini --- Peregrinación azteca --- Tira de la Peregrinación azteca --- Boturini Codex --- Tira de la Peregrinación mexica --- Tira de la Peregrinación mexica o azteca --- Tira de la Peregrinación --- Strip of the Mexica Pilgrimage