{"product_id":"9780292744387-compl-codex-zouchenuttall","title":"The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies. With a full-color reproduction of the entire codex and the first modern commentary in English on the pre-Hispanic history it records, The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall unlocks the social and political cosmos of the ancient Mixtec. \u003cp\u003eThe pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the codices served as outlines of oral traditions to stimulate the memories of bards who knew the complete narratives, which were sung, danced, and performed at elite functions. Centuries later we have limited access to those original performances, and all that remains for our codex interpretation is what is painted on the pages—perhaps five to ten percent of their memory-encoded information.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContinuing the pioneering interpretation he began in \u003ci\u003eLord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan and the Heroes of Ancient Oaxaca\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Lloyd Williams offers an authoritative guide to the entire contents of the codex in \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall\u003c\/i\u003e. Although the reverse document (pages 42–84) has been described in previous literature, the obverse document (pages 1–41) has not been, and it has remained elusive as to narrative. \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall\u003c\/i\u003e elucidates the three sections of the codex, defines them as to function and content, and provides interpretive and descriptive essays about the Native American history the codex recorded prior to the arrival of Europeans in Mexico and the New World generally. With a full-color reproduction of the entire Codex Zouche-Nuttall and Williams’s expert guidance in unlocking its narrative strategies and structures, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall\u003c\/i\u003e opens an essential window into the Mixtec social and political cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40829743923297,"sku":"9780292744387","price":55.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/9cdc7f5e19376381ebbb1e5140cb705d.png?v=1683812771","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780292744387-compl-codex-zouchenuttall","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}