Script and Glyph - Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (STUDIES IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, Band 36) - Softcover

Leibsohn, Professor Dana

 
9780884023425: Script and Glyph - Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (STUDIES IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, Band 36)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0884023427 ISBN 13: 9780884023425
Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca was created at a pivotal transitional moment, bridging an era when pictorial manuscripts dominated and one that witnessed the rising hegemony of alphabetic texts. The Historia was composed using both systems, yet, as Dana Leibsohn notes, neither was fully trusted. Leibsohn analyzes the choices made by the patron, don Alonso de Castañeda, and tlacuilos enlisted to create the manuscript. How does one create a history? Which narratives are included, and which are strikingly absent? Which modes of representation are called upon to convey certain types of information? Leibsohn argues how the very practice of history-keeping itself sustains or challenges a current reality.

Central to the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca is the creation, representation, and understanding of landscape. In the recording of ancestral migrations, don Alonso delineates territory, noting boundaries and their histories, and also reveals relationships with a sacred landscape, detailing how relationships with territory were constantly re-inscribed. In this sense, Script and Glyph is a particularly appropriate volume for Dumbarton Oaks, as it crosses the boundaries of Pre-Columbian and Landscape areas of study. The volume is beautifully illustrated with color images from the manuscript itself.

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Dana Leibsohn is Associate Professor of Art at Smith College.

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Verlag
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0884023427
ISBN 13 
9780884023425
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Anzahl der Seiten
250
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