Maarten Jansen, Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez

Time and the Ancestors

Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9789004340510
• ISBN-10: 9004340513
• Artikelnr.: 47015658

Autorenporträt

Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen (Ph.D. Leiden 1983) is Professor of Heritage of Indigenous Peoples at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is author of many studies about ancient Mexican art and history, including The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts (Brill 2011). Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez, an advocate of indigenous rights and researcher in a European Research Council project about Mesoamerican religious heritage, has published the textbook Sahin Sau, Curso de la Lengua Mixteca (Oaxaca 2008) and co-authored studies on Mixtec history.