The agents in the mixtec pre-Hispanic and colonial histories

Author(s)

Ana Cristina de Vasconcelos Lima

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-02-16

Examining board members

Eduardo Natalino dos Santos; Ana Guadalupe Diaz Alvarez; Renato Sztutman

• Advisor: Eduardo Natalino dos Santos

Abstract

This research aims to analyze and to comprehend the role of no human agents in the mixtec genealogical, historical, and cosmological narratives produced in the late pre-hispanic and early colonial period, more precisely those characters considered as deities by the specialists in the study of these manuscripts. To achieve this objective, the supposed deities and their actions will be analyzed in four mixtec codices: Bodley, Selden, Vindobonense and Zouche Nuttall, pictoglyphic manuscripts produced at behest of mixtec indigenous elites. The agents involved in these histories could be the basis to comprehend what would be the conceptions of history and political power to these elites, since the production of the narratives encloused in the mesoamerican codices were closely linked to the influence and justification of political domain of the indigenous elites. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/09751-1 - The agents in mixtec pre-hispanic and colonial stories
• Grantee: Ana Cristina de Vasconcelos Lima
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master