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Books by Alfredo Lopez Austin
  | | Mexico's Indigenous Past(Updated) by Alfredo Lopez Austin, Leonardo Lopez Lujan Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3723-0, ISBN: 0-8061-3723-1 "This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half ..." |
 | | The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon Mythology in the Mesoamerican Tradition by Alfredo Lopez Austin, Linda Nicholas Paperback, 157 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Utah Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87480-527-7, ISBN: 0-87480-527-9 "Eighteen essays provide an accessible, entertaining look into a system of millennia-old legends and beliefs.Mythology is one of the great creations of humankind. It forms the core of sacred books and reflects the deepest preoccupations of human beings, their most intimate secrets, their glories, and their infamies.In 1990, Alfredo López Austin, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Mesoamerican thought, began a series of essays about ..." |
 | | Mexico's Indigenous Past(1st Edition) by Alfredo Lopez Austin, Leonardo Lopez Lujan, Lujan Austin Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3214-3, ISBN: 0-8061-3214-0 "This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half ..." |
 | | The Myths of the Opossum(1st Edition) Pathways of Mesoamerican Mythology by Alfredo Lopez Austin Hardcover, 421 Pages, Published 1993 by Univ Of New Mexico Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1394-2, ISBN: 0-8263-1394-9 "Published in 1990 under the title Los mitos del tlacuache, this is the first major theoretical study of Mesoamerican mythology by one of the foremost scholars of Aztec ideology. Using the myth cycle of the opossum and the theft of fire from the gods as a touchstone, Lopez Austin constructs a definition of myth that pertains to all of Mesoamerican culture, challenging the notion that to be relevant such studies must occur within a specif ..." |
 | | The Art of Urbanism(9th Edition) How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Leonardo López Luján, William Leonard Fash, Contributor-Ann Cyphers, William L. Fash, Robert H. Cobean, Anna Di Castro, Barbara W. Fash, Susan Gillespie, David C. Grove, Dan Healan, Rex Koontz, Alfredo Lopez Austin, Joyce Marcus, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Patricia Plunket, William Ringle, Amparo Robles, William Saturno, Alexandre Tokovinine, Gabriela Urunuela, Zoltan Paulinyi, George J. Bey Hardcover, 488 Pages, Published 2009 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-344-9, ISBN: 0-88402-344-3 " This volume explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors to this volume consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. T ..." |
 | | Images of the Spirit(1st Edition) by Graciela Iturbide, Roberto Tejada, Alfredo Lopez Austin, Photography Graciela Iturbide Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1996 by Aperture ISBN-13: 978-0-89381-681-0, ISBN: 0-89381-681-7 "Graciela Iturbide makes subtle yet powerful photographs that blend evocative scenes, primarily the cultures of her native Mexico, with her own deeply personal vision. Images of the Spirit, the first major publication of Iturbide's photography, demonstrates how in her dreamlike encounters with what may first appear to be ordinary, she perceives the surreal and the marvelous. Iturbide's work is a mixture of history, lyricism, and portrait ..." |
 | | The Art of Urbanism(Illustrated) How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by William L. Fash, Ann Cyphers, Robert H. Cobean, Leonardo López Luján, Contributor-Susan Gillespie, Anna Di Castro, Barbara W. Fash, David C. Grove, Dan Healan, Amparo Robles, Dr Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Rex Koontz, Alfredo Lopez Austin, Joyce Marcus, Patricia Plunket, William Ringle, William Saturno, Alexandre Tokovinine, Gabriela Urunuela, Zoltan Paulinyi, George J. Bey, Leonardo Lâ¢Pez Lujân, Leonardo L¢Pez Lujn, William Leonard Fash Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2012 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-378-4, ISBN: 0-88402-378-8 "The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. Themes in ..." |
 | | The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon Mythology in the Mesoamerican Tradition: Mythology of Mesoamerican Tradition by Alfredo Lopez Austin Hardcover, 174 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Utah Press,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-87480-521-5, ISBN: 0-87480-521-X |
 | | Images of the Spirit(1st Edition) by Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Lopez Austin, Roberto Tejeda, Roberto Tejada Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1899 by Aperture ISBN-13: 978-0-89381-828-9, ISBN: 0-89381-828-3 "Graciela Iturbide makes subtle yet powerful photographs that blend evocative scenes, primarily the cultures of her native Mexico, with her own deeply personal vision. Images of the Spirit, the first major publication of Iturbide's photography, demonstrates how in her dreamlike encounters with what may first appear to be ordinary, she perceives the surreal and the marvelous. Iturbide's work is a mixture of history, lyricism, and portrait ..." |
 | | Images of the Spirit(1st Edition) by Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Austin, Alfre Graciela, Alfredo Lopez Austin Paperback, 123 Pages, Published 2006 by Aperture Foundation, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-89381-832-6, ISBN: 0-89381-832-1 "The title of Aperture's new book, Images of the Spirit does not do justice to the resounding photographs of Graciela Iturbide. There is nothing ethereal about this work. Iturbide deals heartily with the issues of sameness and difference. Sun-cracked earth contrasts with playing children, stark walls with elaborate alters, everyday life with special celebration. These oppositions represent deeper conflicts in the nature of land and body. ..." |
 | | Tamoanchan, Tlalocan Places of Mist (Mesoamerican Worlds) by Alfredo Lopez Austin Hardcover, 322 Pages, Published 1997 by University Press Of Colorado ISBN-13: 978-0-87081-445-7, ISBN: 0-87081-445-1 "Two mysterious misty places existed in the world vision of the Aztecs-Tamoanchan and Tlalocan. Though they are considered important cosmological places, references to them in Aztec mythology are obscure. Myths about Tamoanchan describe it as the place where all beings in the world originated. Tlalocan, it was said, was a terrestrial paradise located inside a perpetually green and beautiful mountain that was the destination of humans who ..." |
 | | The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon Mythology in the Mesoamerican Tradition by Alfredo Lopez Austin Published 1996 by University Of Utah Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87405-279-4, ISBN: 0-87405-279-3 |
 | | The Myths Of The Possum - Pathways Of Mesoamerican Mythology by Alfredo Lopez Austin Hardcover, Published 1993 by Univ Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-1-125-81907-4, ISBN: 1-125-81907-3 |
 | | Human Body and Ideology Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas(1st Edition) by Alfredo Lopez Austin Hardcover, 832 Pages, Published 1988 by Univ Of Utah Pr (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-87480-260-3, ISBN: 0-87480-260-1 ""3Personal communication from Miguel Blancas Silva to Victor Manuel Castillo Farreras. Information gathered in Tecómitl, Delegación de Milpa Aha, D.F. " 4López Austin, Augurios, 147-49, 203. l"Códice Carolina, 53. "6Foster, " Relationships ..." |
 | | Mito y realidad de Zuyuá(1st Edition) Serpiente Emplumada y las transformaciones mesoamericanas del clásico al posclásico (Serie Ensayos / Fideicomiso Historia de las Americas) (Spanish Edition) by Alfredo Lopez Austin, Leonardo Lopez Lujan Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 1999 by Fondo De Cultura Económica ISBN-13: 978-968-16-5889-2, ISBN: 968-16-5889-2 "Hay incógnitas históricas que inquietan a los especialistas desde hace décadas; el tema del presente libro es una de ellas: las relaciones políticas, culturales, bélicas y comerciales que surgieron en Mesoamérica tras el colapso de Teotihuacan, sobre todo el hecho de que ciudades muy distantes, Tula y Chichén Itzá, presentaran sorprendentes similitudes. El panorama se complica al tomar en cuenta que la imagen de Tula es inseparable de o ..." |
 | | Lu Jia(1st Edition) Nouveaux discours (Bibliotheque Chinoise) (French Edition) by Lu Jia, Beatrice L'haridon, Stéphane Feuillas, Anne Cheng, Marc Kalinowski, Alfredo Lopez Austin Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2012 by Les Belles Lettres ISBN-13: 978-2-251-10012-8, ISBN: 2-251-10012-1 "L'ouvrage est organise en douze chapitres relativement homogenes ou Lu Jia pretend enraciner la Voie politique dans l'ordre naturel qui lui sert de modele et de reference absolue. Il developpe une philosophie politique s'adressant a la fois au souverain et a ses ministres. La valeur exemplaire du souverain doit garantir la duree de son pouvoir, tout en rendant progressivement inutile l'usage des chatiments. La grandeur de son influence ..." |
 | | Tamoanchan y Tlalocan(Reprint) by Alfredo Lopez Austin, López-Austin Alfredo Hardcover, 261 Pages, Published 2000 by Fondo De Cultura Económica ISBN-13: 978-968-16-4574-8, ISBN: 968-16-4574-X "Análisis de antiguas fuentes documentales y pictográficas, que deslindan el Tamoanchan mítico con el de las poblaciones que los creyentes fundaron sobre la Tierra como réplicas del arquetipo cósmico. Para develar el secreto de Tlalocan, el autor ofrece un estudio de las creencias actuales de tres grupos indígenas pertenecientes a la tradición mesoamericana." |
 | | El conejo en la cara de la luna (Spanish Edition) by Alfredo Lopez Austin Paperback, 179 Pages, Published 2018 by Ediciones Era ISBN-13: 978-607-445-431-4, ISBN: 607-445-431-0 "Alfredo Lopez Austin, uno de los mas destacados estudiosos del pensamiento y la religion prehispanicas, autor de grandes tratados e indagaciones exhaustivas, ofrece aqui una muestra de sus hallazgos. Y lo hace en el tono de quien conversa, con humor y animo de entretener, a la vez echando mano de toda su erudicion. Estos hermosos ensayos proporcionan una vision variada, accesible y amena de algunas tradiciones que se han mantenido vivas ..." |
 | | Las Razones del mito (Spanish Edition) by Alfredo Lopez Austin Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 2015 by Ediciones Era ISBN-13: 978-607-445-402-4, ISBN: 607-445-402-7 "Alfredo Lopez Austin, uno de los mayores conocedores del tema, nos ofrece en este libro una clara sintesis sobre la cosmovision de quienes habitaron antes de la Conquista en lo que llamamos Mesoamerica: un area cultural que se desarrollo sobre un territorio de limites variables en el tiempo, que en el norte llego a rebasar el Tropico de Cancer, mientras que en su parte suroriental ocupo la mitad de Centroamerica. En ese vasto territorio ..." |
 | | El Conejo En La Cara De La Luna / the Rabbit in the Moon's Face Ensayos Sobre Mitología De La Tradición Mesoamericana / Essays on Mesoamerican Mythology Tradition by Alfredo Lopez Austin Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2012 by Era Edicions Sa ISBN-13: 978-607-445-191-7, ISBN: 607-445-191-5 "Alfredo Lopez Austin, uno de los mas destacados estudiosos del pensamiento y la religion prehispanicas, autor de grandes tratados e indagaciones exhaustivas, ofrece aqui una muestra de sus hallazgos. Y lo hace en el tono de quien conversa, con humor y animo de entretener, a la vez echando mano de toda su erudicion. Estos hermosos ensayos proporcionan una vision variada, accesible y amena de algunas tradiciones que se han mantenido vivas ..." |
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