The European Construction of Aztec Religion
This article examines the potential European sources for the documentary genre of the cultural encyclopedia in early colonial Mexico. Such encyclopedias of cultural life and religious practice include the midcentury Codex Magliabechiano and Codex Tudela (partial cognates) and the Codex Telleriano-Re...
| Published in: | Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Morcelliana
2010
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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| Further subjects: | B
Intellectual History
B Paganism B Mexican manuscripts (Pre-Columbian) B Mexico B Aztec mythology B Church History |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This article examines the potential European sources for the documentary genre of the cultural encyclopedia in early colonial Mexico. Such encyclopedias of cultural life and religious practice include the midcentury Codex Magliabechiano and Codex Tudela (partial cognates) and the Codex Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A/Ríos (also partial cognates), as well as the later pictorial codices of Bernardino de Sahagún and Diego Durán. It is argued that European cultural classifications determined what knowledge was gathered and how it was organized. More specifically, the friars drew on the European tradition of collections of foreign cultures and collections of pagan gods. The article explains how encyclopedic project was fundamentally a European one, an outgrowth of earlier attempts to categorize and record the cultural practices of foreigners and pagan antiquity. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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