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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816987503321

Autore

Diel Lori Boornazian <1970->

Titolo

The Tira de Tepechpan : negotiating place under Aztec and Spanish rule / / Lori Boornazian Diel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008

ISBN

0-292-79407-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

972/.02

Soggetti

Aztecs - Mexico - Tepexpan - History

Aztec art - Mexico - Tepexpan

Aztecs - First contact with Europeans

Tepexpan (Mexico) History Chronology

Mexico History To 1810

Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810

Spain Colonies America Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Tira de Tepechpan : its structure, contributors, and history -- Pre-imperial history -- Imperial history -- Colonial history of painter A -- Colonial histories of painters B, C, and D -- The alphabetic annotations -- Indigenous histories as strategies for survival -- Appendix. Transcription and translation of annotator I's glosses.

Sommario/riassunto

Created in Tepechpan, a relatively minor Aztec city in Central Mexico, the Tira de Tepechpan records important events in the city's history from 1298 through 1596. Most of the history is presented pictographically. A line of indigenous year signs runs the length of the Tira, with images above the line depicting events in Tepechpan and images below the line recording events at Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire and later the seat of Spanish rule. Written annotations amplify some of the images. In this volume, which includes color plates of the entire Tira, Lori Boornazian Diel investigates the motives behind the creation and modification of the Tira in the second half of the sixteenth century. She identifies the Tira's different contributors and reconciles their various histories by asking why these painters and



annotators, working at different times, recorded the events that they did. Comparing the Tira to other painted histories from Central Mexico, Diel demonstrates that the main goal of the Tira was to establish the antiquity, autonomy, and prestige of Tepechpan among the Central Mexican city-states that vied for power and status in the preconquest and colonial worlds. Offering the unique point of view of a minor city with grand ambitions, this study of the Tira reveals imperial strategy from the grassroots up, showing how a subject city negotiated its position under Aztec and Spanish control.