El maíz se sienta para platicar
Subtitle: códices y formas de conocimiento nahua, más allá del mundo de los libros
By: Ana Díaz Álvarez
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Histórica -- 3; Histórica -- 3.
Publisher: Bonilla Artigas Editores
Published: 2016
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9786078450411; 9786074173840
Subjects: Nahuatl Manuscripts; Mexican Manuscripts; History and criticism; Nahuatl language; Writing; Indians of Mexico; Language; Tonalámatl de Aubin
Other titles: Códices y formas de conocimiento nahua, más allá del mundo de los libros
Description: "This book analyzes the phenomenon of the cultural contact between the Nashuas and Spaniards from the study of two objects: the tonalamatl - a pre-Hispanic nahua codice of ritual content and the European book. The book reflects on the transformations suffered by the tonalamatl as the result of the introduction of the book and Western literary traditions to America. Starting from the premise that each of these objects was associated with an epistemology, a material and intellectual culture which has no reference with that "other world", this approach allows the understanding of the aspects about the material world, and also about the forms of Nahua thought." (HKB Translation) --Verso Cover.
Notes: Limited ed. of 500 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Los libros del Nuevo Mundo; title: La lectura envuelta en piel; title: De libros y fetiches en el mundo de las letras; title: El paso del tonalamatl al libro de cuentas calendáricas; title: Asientos para los señores. Una propuesta de interpretación; title: Conclusiones. No todo lo que parece un libro es un libro.