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Book Review| October 01 2019 Book Review: The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain, by Lori Boornazian Diel The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain, by Lori Boornazian Diel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. 228 pp., 82 color, 35 black and white, 3 black and white charts/graphs. Paperback $55.00. Reviewed by Helen Burgos-Ellis. Helen Burgos-Ellis Helen Burgos-Ellis UCLA, Chicana and Chicano Studies Department Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2019) 1 (4): 123–124. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.140013 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Helen Burgos-Ellis; Book Review: The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain, by Lori Boornazian Diel. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 October 2019; 1 (4): 123–124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.140013 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search In the late Postclassic period (ca. 1250–1521), which immediately precedes the Spanish conquest, the practice of recording a number of subjects—including history, timekeeping, religion, tribute, botany, and genealogy—in manuscripts was widespread in Mesoamerica (comprising parts of modern-day Mexico and Central America). The significance of Mesoamerican manuscripts cannot be overstated; however, analyzing them is an arduous exercise. Unlike the Maya, who developed hieroglyphic writing, the Aztecs (also Nahuas) used imagery and calendar glyphs exclusively. After 1521, during the colonial period, the manuscript-making practice continued and indigenous scribes adopted alphabetic text, which elucidates images and glyphs in Pre-Columbian manuscripts. Yet, the complexity of sixteenth-century society, straddling an esteemed indigenous past as it confronted new cultural realities, particularly the advent of Christianity and Aztec responses to the new religion, renders colonial manuscripts difficult to study. While Mesoamerican manuscripts have been widely analyzed, some, including the Aztec Codex Mexicanus (ca. 1580s)—currently conserved at the... You do not currently have access to this content.
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