Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2

Name: Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2
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ISBN: 9780826342836

ISBN-10: 0826342833

ISBN-13: 9780826342836

Edition: 2007

Authors: Davï¿½d Davï¿½d Carrasco, Scott Scott Sessions

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"Cave, City, And Eagle's Nest" is the culmination of an international research project and series of conferences, organized by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, focused on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the "Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2." Painted on bark paper and measuring 109 x 204 centimeters, this extraordinary document contains over seven hundred images and symbols relating the story of the emergence of ancestors at Chicomoztoc (Place of Seven Caves), their migration to the sacred city of Cholula, their foundation and settlement of Cuauhtinchan (Place of the Eagle's Nest), their community's history and claim over the surrounding landscape, and many other occurrences…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 11/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 503
Size: 9.21" wide x 11.53" long x 1.83" tall
Weight: 6.380
Language: English

Davï¿½d Carrasco is Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Divinity School at Harvard University. He was recently awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.

Scott Sessions is managing editor of the African-American Religion Documentary History Project and research associate at Amherst College.



List of Abbreviations


List of Illustrations


Foreword



Introduction: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No.2




Orientations in Time and Territory



The House of the Eagle




A New View: The Conservation and Digital Restoration of the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




Representations of Territorial Organization in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




The Lords of the Land: The Historical Context of the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




A Claim to Rulership: Presentation Strategies in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




Calendar, Chronology, and Cosmology in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




Narratives and Rituals of Roads and Roadsides



Glyphs and Messages in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2: Chicomoztoc, Itzpapalotl, and 13 Flint




The Serpent Road: Iconic Encoding and the Historical Narrative of the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




Botanical Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




Sacred Bundles, Arrows, and New Fire: Foundation and Power in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




Comparisons and Approximations



Walking Is Knowing: Pilgrimage through the Pictorial History of the Cuauhtinchantlacan




Indigenous Migrations, Pilgrimage Trails, and Sacred Geography: Foregrounds and Backgrounds to the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




The Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 and the Cosmic Tree in Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and the Amazon-Orinoco Basin




Seeing In Situ: The Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2




Middle Place, Labyrinth, and Circumambulation: Cholula's Peripatetic Role in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2



Editors and Contributors


Index