Elizabeth Hill Boone: 3 books
by Elizabeth Hill Boone
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's...
by Elizabeth Hill Boone
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 16, 2016
La presente obra es producto de años de investigación que Elizabeth Hill Boone ha dedicado al estudio del arte y la iconografía Mesoamericana, particularmente de los libros pintados de la región central de México. Hill Boone ofrece en este análisis una mirada al pasado de las culturas mesoamericanas...
Stories in Red and Black
Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian...