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Book Synopsisor more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E. - 750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures, including our own. Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this ancient city.
Trade Review"This volume is the most important treatment of the subject to date... Born of a combination of advances in epigraphy, improved archaeological techniques, and detailed iconographic analyses -- all on display here -- this Mesoamerican 'new history' is the single most important intellectual event in the field in recent times." -- Hispanic American Historical Review.
Table of Contents; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reimagining the Classic Heritage in Mesoamerica: Continuities and Fractures in Time, Space, and Scholarship; Carrasco; David; Jones; Lindsay; Sessions; Scott; PART I:; The Paradigm Shifts in Mesoamerican Studies; 1.; The Myth and Reality of Zuyua: The Feathered Serpent and Mesoamerican Transformations from the Classic to the Postclassic; Austin; Alfredo Lopez; Lujan; Leonardo Lopez; PART II:; Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Time and History; 2.; The Construction of the Underworld in Central Mexico; Manzanilla; Linda; 3.; Teotihuacan as an Origin for Postclassic Feathered Serpent Symbolism; Sugiyama; Saburo; 4.; The Iconography of the Feathered Serpent in Late Postclassic Central Mexico; Nicholson; H. B.; 5.; From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: City Planning, Caves, and Streams of Red and Blue Waters; Heyden; Doris; 6.; From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: Their Great Temples; Moctezuma; Eduardo Matos; 7.; Teotihuacan Cultural Traditions Transmitted into the Postclassic According to Recent Excavations; Castro; Ruben Cabrera; 8.; The 9-Xi Vase: A Classic Thin Orange Vessel Found at Tenochtitlan; Lujan; Leonardo Lopez; Neff; Hector; Sugiyama; Saburo; PART III:; Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Space and Sacred Geography; 9.; Out of Teotihuacan: Origins of the Celestial Canon in Mesoamerica; Aveni; Anthony F.; 10.; The Turquoise Hearth: Fire, Self-Sacrifice, and the Central Mexican Cult of War; Taube; Karl; 11.; Tollan Cholollan and the Legacy of Legitimacy During the Classic-Postclassic Transition; McCafferty; Geoffrey G.; PART IV:; Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Scholarship and Intellectual History; 12.; Venerable Place of Beginnings: The Aztec Understanding of Teotihuacan; Boone; Elizabeth H.; 13.; Calendrics and Ritual Landscape at Teotihuacan: Themes of Continuity in Mesoamerican "Cosmovision"; Broda; Johanna; 14.; Teotihuacan and the Maya: A Classic Heritage; Fash; William L.; Fash; Barbara W.; 15.; "The Arrival of Strangers": Teotihuacan and Tollan in Classic Maya History; Stuart; David; 16.; Parallel Consumptive Cosmologies; Arnold; Philip P.; Editors and Contributors; Index;
