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Poetics and Metaphor in Mixtec Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Mark B. King
Mark B. King
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Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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Abstract

The structure and meaning of Mixtec codical symbolism is examined, based on data drawn from language, ethnography, and ethnohistory. The article is divided into three parts: (a) a discussion of Mixtec ideology and myth, with respect to codex symbolism; (b) a description of Mixtec poetics and symbolic correlates; and (c) an interpretive commentary of a brief mythological passage from the Vienna codex as a practical illustration of the first two parts of the article.

Type
Special Section: Rethinking Mixtec Codices
Information
Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 141 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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