Flower worlds religion, aesthetics, and ideology in Mesoamerica and the American southwest
Introduction. Flower worlds: a synthesis and critical history / Andrew D. Turner and Michael D. Mathiowetz – Part 1. Contemporary flower worlds – 1. Flower world in the religious ideology of contemporary Nahua of the Southern Huasteca, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstorm – 2. Becoming Peyote, or the flowers...
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The University of Arizona Press
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Amerind studies in anthropology
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction. Flower worlds: a synthesis and critical history / Andrew D. Turner and Michael D. Mathiowetz – Part 1. Contemporary flower worlds – 1. Flower world in the religious ideology of contemporary Nahua of the Southern Huasteca, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstorm – 2. Becoming Peyote, or the flowers of Wirikuta / Johannes Neurath – 3. "The living beautiful part of our present world": the Yoeme Sea Ania (flower world) / Felipe S. Molina and David Delgado Shorter – Part 2. Historical flower worlds – 5. The Goddess in the garden: an exploration of gender in the flower worlds of the Pacific Coast of Guatemala / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos – 6. The flowery mountains of Copan: pollen remains from Maya temples and tombs / Cameron L. McNeil – 7. Beauty in troubled times: the flower world in epiclassic Central Mexico, A.D. 600-900 / Andrew D. Turner – 8. Life in bloom: the Casas Grandes flower world and its antecedents in Northwest Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, and the American Southwest / Michael D. Mathiowetz – 9. At the reed of life: the Cicada and the emergence in the ancient and contemporary American Southwest / Karl A. Taube – 10. The flower world of Cholula / John M. D. Pohl -- 11. The flower world in Tenochtitlan: sacrifice, war, and imperialistic agendas / Angel Gonzalez Lopez and Lorena Vazquez Vallin – 12. The flowery matter of chant: the use of organic colors in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican codex painting / Davide Domenici – 13. The flowers of our lady of Guadalupe: Marian devotional painting and Nahua cosmology after the conquest / James M. Cordova – Epilogue. "It’s raining feather-flower songs": commentary on current flower worlds research / Kelley Hays-Gilpin "The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas. Flower Worlds is the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past."-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xiv, 336 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780816542321 978-0-8165-4232-1 |