Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico / Ross Hassig

1st ed

Englisch

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001

Online-Ressource (xv, 220 p) : ill

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index

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Print version: Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico

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""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1. Time and the Interpretation of Other Cultures""; ""Chapter 2. Outside the Focus""; ""Chapter 3. Reinterpreting Aztec Perspectives""; ""Chapter 4. Why the Aztecs Manipulated Time""; ""Chapter 5. The Ripples of Time""; ""Chapter 6. The Colonial Transition""; ""Chapter 7. Time and Analysis""; ""Appendix: Pronunciation Guide""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

*Time -- Social aspects -- Mexico ; Aztec calendar ; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 ; Manuscripts, Nahuatl ; Aztecs -- History ; Aztec cosmology

*Aztec calendar ; Aztec cosmology ; Aztecs ; History ; Manuscripts, Nahuatl ; Mexico ; History ; Spanish colony, 1540-1810 ; Time ; Social aspects ; Mexico ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: F1219.76.C35

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 529/.32978452;

Annotation, Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history.Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones. His findings promise to revolutionize our understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history

 

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