Aztec Religion and Art of Writing : : Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality / / Isabel Laack.
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, on...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Numen Book Series
161. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (455 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Introduction 1
- 1 Methodology 16
- 2 Living in Cultural Diversity 59
- 3 Living in Relation: Being Human in Tenochtitlan 80
- 4 A World in Motion: Nahua Ontology 109
- 5 Understanding a World in Motion: Nahua Epistemology 149
- 6 Interacting with a World in Motion: Nahua Pragmatism and Aesthetics 167
- 7 Expressing Reality in Language: Nahua Linguistic Theory 203
- 8 Materializing Reality in Writing: Nahua Pictography 246
- 9 Understanding Pictography: Interpreting Nahua Semiotics 286
- 10 Interpretative Results: Nahua Religion, Scripture, and Sense of Reality 342
- Conclusion 356
- Figures 365
- Figure Credits 381
- Back Matter
- References
- Index.