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OverviewPainted Words presents a facsimile, decipherment, and analysis of a seventeenth-century pictographic catechism from colonial Mexico, preserved as Fonds Mexicain 399 at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Works in this genre present the Catholic catechism in pictures that were read sign by sign as aids to memorization and oral performance. They have long been understood as a product of the experimental techniques of early evangelization, but this study shows that they are better understood as indigenous expressions of devotional knowledge. In addition to inventive pictography to recount the catechism, this manuscript features Nahuatl texts that focus on don Pedro Moteuczoma, son of the Mexica ruler Moteuczoma the Younger, and his home, San Sebastián Atzaqualco. Other glosses identify figures drawn within the manuscript as Nahua and Spanish historical personages, as if the catechism had been repurposed as a dynastic record. The end of the document displays a series of Nahua and Spanish heraldic devices. These combined pictorial and alphabetic expressions form a spectacular example of how colonial pictographers created innovative text genres, through which they reimagined pre-Columbian writing and early evangelization-and ultimately articulated newly emerging assertions of indigenous identity and memorialized native history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Hill Boone , Louise M. Burkhart , David TavárezPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Imprint: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Dimensions: Width: 19.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 26.70cm Weight: 1.084kg ISBN: 9780884024187ISBN 10: 0884024180 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 09 January 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationElizabeth Hill Boone is Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University. Louise M. Burkhart is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. David Tavárez is Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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