Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest

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An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa De Cuauhtinchan No. 2

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Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest is the culmination of an international research project and series of conferences, organized by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, focused on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the ""Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2"". Painted on bark paper and measuring 109 X 204 centimeters, this extraordinary document contains over seven hundred images and symbols relating the story of the emergence of ancestors at Chicomoztoc (Place of Seven Caves), their migration to the sacred city of Cholula, their foundation and settlement of Cuauhtinchan (Place of the Eagle's Nest), their community's history and claim over the surrounding landscape, and many other occurrences along the way. Dating from around the 1540s, barely two decades after the fall of the Aztecs, the mapa recently underwent extensive physical analysis, conservation, and a systematic photographic survey. These rare images - including sixteen full-size sections and a nearly quarter-size facsimile - accompany fifteen richly illustrated essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, its complex narrative, and the social and ritual memory of an indigenous community struggling to hold its own in the turbulent atmosphere of early colonial Mexico.

Author Biography:

David Carrasco is Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin America Studies and director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive at Harvard University. Scott Sessions is managing editor of the African-American Religion Documentary History Project and research associate at Amherst College. John H. Coatsworth is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and director (1994-2006) of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

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December 30th, 2007

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General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

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Edited by David Carrasco
Edited by Scott Sessions

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300 colour photographs, one 18 X 30 colour sheet, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 4 maps

Pages

503

Dimensions

229x305x47

ISBN-13

9780826342836

Product ID

3845433

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