Cave, city, and eagle's nest : an interpretive journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan no. 2 / edit...
Cave, city, and eagle's nest : an interpretive journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan no. 2 / edit...
Cave, city, and eagle's nest : an interpretive journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan no. 2 / edited by Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press ; [Cambridge, MA] : Published in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2007.
Date
2007.
Call Numbers
NQ972.48/1
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxi, 479 p., [64] p. of folded plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press ; [Cambridge, MA] : Published in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2007.
Place of Publication
New Mexico
Date Published
2007.
Access and use
Access Conditions
State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Dating from around the 1540s, barely two decades after the fall of the Aztecs, the mapa recently underwent extensive physical analysis, conservation and a photographic survey. Many of the resulting images accompany fifteen essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, its complex narrative, and the social and ritual memory of an indig...
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Full title
Cave, city, and eagle's nest : an interpretive journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan no. 2 / edited by Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions.
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Notes
General note
One folded col. map inserted in pocket of back cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
NQ972.48/1
Record Identifier
74VK3z7EMDdl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3z7EMDdl
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ISBN
9780826342836 (cloth : alk. paper)
0826342833 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
972.48
MMS ID
991023760339702626
