The Mesoamerican codex re-entangled : Production, use and re-use of pre-colonial documents (Archaeological Studies Leiden University)

Snijders, Ludo

Leiden University Press（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789087282639

Full Description

"This innovative work attempts to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica's precolonial codices. Today less than twenty extant manuscripts are all that remains of the Mesoamerican book-making tradition. These pictographic and hieroglyphic texts have often been studied for their content, but in doing so their nature as physical objects faded into the background. By tracing the paths these books have followed over the past five hundred years, this study acquaints the reader with their production, use and re-use, destruction, rediscovery and reinvention. Even today, in fact, these books continue to add new chapters to their biography. That is, thanks to the most cutting-edge technology currently available, it has now been possible to uncover a completely new text from inside one of these precious and fragile manuscripts."

Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Summary
Introduction
1. Materials for Writing
2. The Practice of Codex Making
3. The Lifecycle of the Mesoamerican Codices
4. Demons and Colonization, the Destruction of Written Culture
5. Reproduction of the Codices
6. Recovery of a Hidden Chapter in the Life of Codex Añute
7. Conclusions and Reflections
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
List of Figures
List of Tables