Mesoamerican manuscripts : new scientific approaches and interpretations / edited by Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen, Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán and Ludo Snijders

"The present book is the result of an effort to exchange information about the state of the art in Mesoamerican codex studies between researchers from different disciplines. The important Mexican manuscript collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, became the meeting point for several major projects in this field ... [A] first interdisciplinary conference on 'Ancient Mexican Codices: Scientific and Historical Perspectives', on the 3rd and 4th June 2013 [was held] in the prestigious Accademia dei Lincei, Rome ... This successful encounter inspired a second conference, now with the title 'Mesoamerican manuscripts: new scientific approaches and interpretations', three years later, on the 31st May and 1st June 2016, in one of the most stunning venues in Oxford, the recently refurbished Weston Library (part of the Bodleian Libraries)."--Page xii

Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations brings together a wide range of modern approaches to the study of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. This includes innovative studies of materiality through the application of non-invasive spectroscopy and imaging techniques, as well as new insights into the meaning of these manuscripts and related visual art, stemming from a post-colonial indigenous perspective.0This cross- and interdisciplinary work shows on the one hand the value of collaboration of specialists in different field, but also the multiple viewpoints that are possible when these types of complex cultural expressions are approached from varied cultural and scientific backgrounds

Includes bibliographical references and index

The Codex Mendoza: writing and re-writing "the last word" / Frances F. Berdan -- The Codex Mendoza and the archaeology of Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján -- From "rich plumes" to war accoutrements: feathered objects in the Codex Mendoza and their extant representatives / Laura Filloy Nadal and María Olvido Moreno Guzmán -- The Tlamatque and Codex Mendoza / Raul Macuil Martínez -- Conquest, growth and evolution: indigenist discourse in the Codex Mendoza / Jorge Gómez-Tejada -- Exploring the materiality of Mesoamerican manuscripts by non-invasive spectroscopic methods: Codex Laud, Bodley, Selden, Mendoza and Selden Roll at the Bodleian Library / Chiara Grazia, David Buti, Laura Cartechini, Francesca Rosi, Francesca Gabrieli, Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán, Davide Domenici, Antonio Sgamellotti, Aldo Romani and Costanza Miliani -- Cultural and historical implications of non-destructive analyses on Mesoamerican codices in the Bodleian Libraries / Davide Domenici, Costanza Miliani and Antonio Sgamellotti -- The Codex Laud and the problem of its provenance / María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria -- Mazatec chants and Mesoamerican codices / Alessia Frassani -- Codex Yoalli Ehecatl as a temicamatl or "Book to interpret dreams" / Araceli Rojas Martínez Gracida -- The Dresden Codex and contemporary K'iche' serpent dance / Paul van den Akker -- Maya literary traditions and present-day concerns: an indigenous reading of ancient manuscripts / Manuel May Castillo -- Re-interpreting Ñuu Savi pictorial manuscripts from a Mixtec perspective: linking past and present / Omar Aguilar Sánchez -- Chronological correlations in Aztec and Mixtec history / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez -- Imaging Mexican codices: challenges and opportunities / Tim Zaman, David Howell and Ludo Snijders -- Codex Yoho Yuchi, the text inside the Mixtec Codex Añute / Ludo Snijders -- Reading Mixtec manuscripts as ceremonial discourse: historical and ideological background of Codex Añute (Selden) / Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez -- Conclusions: Materiality and practice in the study of Mexican manuscripts / Rosemary A. Joyce

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