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 [Browse]
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Book
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  • English
  • Nahuatl languages
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First [edition].
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Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2017]
Description
xiv, 386 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.

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    "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.
    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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