The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall(1st Edition) Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) by RobertLloydWilliams, Rex Koontz Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-74438-7, ISBN: 0-292-74438-2
"The 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 func ..."
"In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed ..."
"In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed ..."
"The Selden scene omits Eight Deer and shows Lady Six Monkey and Lord
Eleven Wind betrothed, but not married, by the oracle in AD 1083. Six Monkey
and Eleven Wind were not formally married until AD 1090. Sixyears later (AD
1096), Lord Two Rain died mysteriously and, as we discovered, became a
mummy bundle. There was a power vacuum at Tilantongo. This is the essential
imbalance of political power that, it is assumed, re- sulted in Tw ..."
Unit Operations by George Granger Brown Paperback, 610 Pages, Published 2005 by Cbs Publishers & Distributors ISBN-13: 978-81-239-1099-4, ISBN: 81-239-1099-1