Title: Das kulturelle Gedächtnis Mesoamerikas im Kulturvergleich zum alten China :
Authors: Graña Behrens, Daniel.
Date: 2009
Publisher: Gebr. Mann Verlag,
Physical description: 250 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: German
LC classification: F
Contents: Das "Gedächtnis Mesoamerikas" im Spiegel von Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit und im Kulturvergleich zum alten China / Daniel Graña-Behrens -- Was there historical contact between early China and Mesoamerica? / Gordon Whittaker -- Zukunftsperspektive und Geschichtsbewusstsein in altchinesischen und mesoamerikanischen Hochkulturen / Xiaobing Wang-Riese -- And the flint stone became a rabbit ... : the creation of the south and the origin of time in the Aztec "legend of the sun" / Patrick Johansson K. -- Bücher in Mesoamerika / Berthold Riese -- Mixtec rulership in early colonial times : the codex of Yanhuitlan / Maarten Jansen, Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez -- Piktographie und Erinnerung in der frühen Kolonialzeit am Beispiel von Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, Mexiko / Daniel Graña-Behrens -- From pictoriality to alphabetization : comments on the evolution of Nahua visual memory, 1570 to 1740 / Amos Megged -- The meaning of the codices for the present-day indigenous peoples / Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, Salvador Reyes Equiguas.
Notes: Papers originally presented at an international symposium held in Shanghai, China in October 2005.
Subject headings (LCSH): Central America--Civilization.; Central America--Social life and customs.; China--Civilization.; China--Social life and customs.; Chinese language--Ancient Chinese, 600-1200--Writing--Congresses.; Collective memory.; Indians of Central America--History.; Indians of Central America--Languages--Writing--Congresses.; Indians of Mexico--History.; Indians of Mexico--Languages--Writing--Congresses.; Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)--Congresses.; Mexico--Civilization--Chinese influences--Congresses.; Mexico--Civilization.; Mexico--Social life and customs.