LEADER 03796nam 22007214a 450 001 9910822263703321 005 20230207224224.0 010 $a0-292-79795-8 024 7 $a2027/heb03523 035 $a(CKB)1000000000397118 035 $a(OCoLC)191936559 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10190664 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259519 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192601 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259519 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186762 035 $a(PQKB)11675233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443081 035 $a(OCoLC)55941108 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443081 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190664 035 $a(dli)HEB03523 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005101096 035 $a(DE-B1597)588299 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797956 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000397118 100 $a20000520d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTime, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico /$fRoss Hassig 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin, TX $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-73140-X 311 $a0-292-73139-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1 Time and the Interpretation of Other Cultures -- $t2 Outside the Focus -- $t3 Reinterpreting Aztec Perspectives -- $t4 Why the Aztecs Manipulated Time -- $t5 The Ripples of Time -- $t6 The Colonial Transition -- $t7 Time and Analysis -- $tAppendix: Pronunciation Guide -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBased 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 that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones. His findings promise to revolutionize our understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history. 606 $aAztec calendar 606 $aAztecs$xHistory 606 $aAztec cosmology 606 $aManuscripts, Nahuatl 606 $aTime$xSocial aspects$zMexico 607 $aMexico$xHistory$ySpanish colony, 1540-1810 615 0$aAztec calendar. 615 0$aAztecs$xHistory. 615 0$aAztec cosmology. 615 0$aManuscripts, Nahuatl. 615 0$aTime$xSocial aspects 676 $a529/.32978452 700 $aHassig$b Ross$f1945-$0865807 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822263703321 996 $aTime, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico$91932230 997 $aUNINA