Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca: Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall

by Robert Lloyd Williams

Book Overview

In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed histories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725736
• ISBN13: 9780292725737
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"