Aztec Religion and Art of Writing : Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality /

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...

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Main Author: Laack, Isabel.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Numen Book Series 161.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

Subjects:

Nahuatl language > Writing.
Nahuas > Religion.
Aztec cosmology.

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Call Number: F1219.54.A98 L33 2019

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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.