Registrados hace casi un siglo y publicados en Alemania hace más de siete lustros, los Textos nahuas de San Pedro Jícora constituyen -después del corpus de literatura indígena reunido por el fraile franciscano Bernardino de Sahagún- la compilación más abundante … Sigue leyendo
(Versión impresa) No cabe duda de que el presente libro cumple cabalmente con su cometido: contribuir al análisis de las relaciones de necesidad entre la estructura social y los sistemas rituales. A partir de su lectura podemos adquirir una visión … Sigue leyendo
The temple and the codex become determinant remains of the local process of development; the architecture allows putting out, in addition to its stylistic and aesthetic qualities, the fact of being a historical document. The reading can be from two instances, the one that prints the catholic worship and the hegemonic speech of western court, and the one that allows putting out the point of view of the dominated culture, which from the Spanish conquest was known as that of the Indians.
Sigue leyendoThe alternating game: the life and death. Life-cycle rituals among the Nahua of the Sierra de Puebla
The book is organized into four chapters, introduction and conclusion. This is a simple text with good structure and simple writing, so that the reader is lead by the hand to know the main ideas, proposals, hypotheses and conclusions without any tricks or major complications.
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