Aztec Religion and Art of Writing : Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality /
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...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden, Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
سلاسل:
Numen Book Series
161.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: F1219.54.A98 L33 2019
- 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.