Twin City Tales: Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichen Itza (Mesoamerican Worlds S.) - Hardcover

Jones, Lindsay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870814036 ISBN 13: 9780870814037

Verlag: University of Colorado,Department of Fine Arts, 1995

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One of the most enduring debates in Mesoamerican archaeology centers on the striking resemblance between the two ruins of Tula, Hidalgo, and Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Surveying the convoluted history of these debates from the perspective of the history of religions, Lindsay Jones provides a new vehicle for exploring more general issues about the politics of knowledge that has shaped and continues to shape the field of Mesoamerican archaeology.
By exercising a "hermeneutic of suspicion," Jones contends that most explanations of the resemblance between the two sets of ruins reveals more about Western attitudes toward indigenous American peoples than about the empirical realities of pre-Columbian life. By deploying a "hermeneutic of recovery," Jones then presents a fresh interpretation of the old problem of similitude between Tula and Chichen Itza from the perspective of the history of religions. This approach enables Twin City Tales to address very specific historical problems and to raise much broader theoretical questions about the academic interpretation and comparison of sacred architecture.

Biografía del autor:

Lindsay Jones is an associate professor in the Division of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at The Ohio State University.

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• Verlag: University of Colorado,Department of Fine Arts
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0870814036
• ISBN 13: 9780870814037
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Zeichner: Desmond Lawrence G.