LEADER 03611oam 2200481I 450 001 9910511383103321 005 20190826145055.0 010 $a90-04-39201-7 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004392014 035 $a(CKB)4970000000170109 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5842420 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004392014 035 $a(EXLCZ)994970000000170109 100 $a20170829d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAztec Religion and Art of Writing : $eInvestigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality /$fIsabel Laack 210 1$aLeiden, $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (455 pages) 225 0 $aNumen Book Series ;$vv. 161 311 $a90-04-39145-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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. 330 $aIn her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of ?sacred scripture? traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. 'This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system.' - Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University 410 0$aNumen Book Series$v161. 606 $aNahuatl language$xWriting 606 $aNahuas$xReligion 606 $aAztec cosmology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNahuatl language$xWriting. 615 0$aNahuas$xReligion. 615 0$aAztec cosmology. 676 $a497.452 700 $aLaack$b Isabel$01065792 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511383103321 996 $aAztec Religion and Art of Writing$92547992 997 $aUNINA