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Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico / / Ross Hassig



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Autore: Hassig Ross <1945-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico / / Ross Hassig Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina: 529/.32978452
Soggetto topico: Aztec calendar
Aztecs - History
Aztec cosmology
Manuscripts, Nahuatl
Time - Social aspects - Mexico
Soggetto geografico: Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-292-79795-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996247927403316
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