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Painted words : Nahua Catholicism, politics, and memory in the Atzaqualco pictorial catechism / Elizabeth Hill Boone, Louise M. Burkhart, and David Tavárez.
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Boone, Elizabeth Hill
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Format
Book
Language
English
Nahuatl languages
Εdition
First [edition].
Published/Created
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2017]
Description
xiv, 386 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Subject(s)
Nahuas
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Religion
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Catholic Church
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Mexico
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History
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Catholic Church
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Catechisms
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Catholic Church
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History
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Indigenous Studies
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Author
Burkhart, Louise M., 1958-
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Tavárez, David Eduardo
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Catechisms
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Getty AAT genre
catechisms
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Series
Studies in pre-Columbian art and archaeology ; no. 39.
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Studies in pre-Columbian art and archaeology ; number thirty-nine
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Summary note
"Painted Words: Nahua Catholicism, politics, and memory in the Atzaqualco pictorial catechism presents a facsimile, decipherment, and analysis of a seventeenth-century pictographic catechism from colonial Mexico, preserved as Fonds Mexicain 399 at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Works in this genre present the Catholic catechism in pictures that were read sign by sign as aids to memorization and oral performance. They have long been understood as products of the experimental techniques of early evangelization, but this study shows that they are better understood as particularly indigenous expressions of devotional knowledge. In addition to inventive pictography to recount the catechism, the manuscript features layers of additional material, including Nahuatl texts that focus on don Pedro Moteuczoma, son of the Mexica ruler Moteuczoma the Younger, and his home, San Sebastián Atzaqualco. Other glosses identify figures drawn within the manuscript as Nahua and Spanish historical personages, as if the catechism had been repurposed as a dynastic record. The end of the document displays a series of Nahua and Spanish heraldic devices. These combined pictorial and alphabetic expressions make the text a spectacular example of how colonial pictographers created innovative text genres, through which they reimagined pre-Columbian writing and early evangelization, articulated newly emerging assertions of indigenous identity, and memorialized native history."-- Back cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-374) and index.
Language note
Item is in original Nahuatl and in English translation.
Contents
The Atzaqualco catechism and colonial Mexican catechismal pictography
A merger of preconquest and New Spanish systems
The pictographic vocabulary: ideography, phonography, and syntax
Christian doctrine: Nahuas encouter the catechism
Rule, service, and privilege in the pictorial additions
Mutable memories: the Moteuczomas and Nahua nobilty in the Atzaqualco catechism
Deciphering the catechism
Annotations on the catechism
Afterword: painting piety and politics
Appendix A: supplementary prayers
Appendix B: indentification of name glosses for historical figures.
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Other title(s)
Atzaqualco catechism.
Atzaqualco catechism. English
ISBN
9780884024187 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
0884024180 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016007375
OCLC
949552604
Other standard number
40026895989
99970920825
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