Cosmogonía antigua mexicana
Subtitle: hipótesis iconográfica y textual
By: Rubén Bonifaz Nuño.
Contributors: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Seminario de Estudios Prehispánicos para la Descolonización de México.
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades, Seminario de Estudios Prehispánicos para la Descolonización de México
Published: 1995
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Religion.; Olmecs -- Religion.; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.; Mexico -- Antiquities.
Description: "Collection of revisionist essays, some previously published, aimed at promoting author's hypothesis that the human-serpentine complex is an elementary and pervasive feature of Mesoamerican creation belief, dating from Olmec times and reaching its culmination in Aztec expression. Strongly indicts US scholarship on the Olmecs, heatedly refuting the jaguar interpretation, among others. Employs some traditional ethnohistorical sources but also argues that the plastic arts be read as texts, even in preference to colonial indigenous documents that, he charges, are 'all suspect of falsehood' ('todos sospechosos de falsedad,' p. 125) due to the influence that the European invaders had upon native writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-153).