The Codice de Santa Maria Asuncion: Households and Land in Sixteenth-Centurt Tepetlaoztoc Tapa dura - 1997

Univ of Utah Pr, 1997. hardcover. Very Good. 9x1x13. 1997; Utah; red cloth covered boards with gold titles; mild edge wear; sun faded at the edges; interior is clean and unmarked; From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely; Folio, 12"- 15" tall; 410 pages; Additional shipping charges may be required due to the size and weight of book.

xii+410 pages with 38 figures, 10 tables, appendix and page reproductions of the Códice de Santa María Asunción. Royal quarto (12 1/2" x 9 1/2") issued in maroon cloth gilt lettering to cover and spine. First edition.The Códice de Santa María Asunción is a native pictorial manuscript painted in the mid-sixteenth century. It records censuses of households and landholdings of twelve rural communities in Tepetlaoztoc, a pre-Hispanic city-state in the eastern Basin of Mexico. Drawn and bound as a book, the codex is artistically relatively uninteresting, with its page after page of stylized heads of households and rectangular agricultural fields, but its content is extremely important for what it reveals about the less well-known, commoner component of Nahua culture at the time of Contact. Representative of the rural countryside twenty years after the Conquest, it is one of the few extant documents that illustrate indigenous methods of record keeping described by sixteenth-century observers. The… Leer más