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UNINA9910822263703321 |
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Autore |
Hassig Ross <1945-> |
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Titolo |
Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico / / Ross Hassig |
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Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2001 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aztec calendar |
Aztecs - History |
Aztec cosmology |
Manuscripts, Nahuatl |
Time - Social aspects - Mexico |
Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Time and the Interpretation of Other Cultures -- 2 Outside the Focus -- 3 Reinterpreting Aztec Perspectives -- 4 Why the Aztecs Manipulated Time -- 5 The Ripples of Time -- 6 The Colonial Transition -- 7 Time and Analysis -- Appendix: Pronunciation Guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history. Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue |
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