Sweeping the way : divine transformation in the Aztec festival of Ochpaniztli /
Incorporating human sacrifice, flaying, and mock warfare, the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli, or "Sweeping," has long attracted attention. Although among the best known of eighteen annual Aztec ceremonies, Ochpaniztli's significance has nevertheless been poorly un...
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Language notes: | English. |
Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2009] |
Series: | Mesoamerican worlds.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Sources for Ochpaniztli: Negotiating Text and Image in Early Colonial Mexican Manuscripts
- Visualizing the Sacred in the Ochpaniztli Festival
- Purification and Renewal during the Festival of Ochpaniztli
- The Colonial Image of Tlazolteotl
- Ochpaniztli in the Mexican Codex Borbonicus.