xiv, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color), maps 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2021
Notes:
NMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment
Contents:
Introduction. Flower worlds: a synthesis and critical history / Andrew D. Turner and Michael D. Mathiowetz -- Part 1. Contemporary flower worlds -- Flower world in the religious ideology of contemporary Nahua of the Southern Huasteca, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstorm -- Becoming Peyote, or the flowers of Wirikuta / Johannes Neurath -- "The living beautiful part of our present world": the Yoeme Sea Ania (flower world) / Felipe S. Molina and David Delgado Shorter -- Flower world concepts in Hopi katsina song texts / Dorothy K. Washburn -- Part 2. Historical flower worlds -- The Goddess in the garden: an exploration of gender in the flower worlds of the Pacific Coast of Guatemala / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos -- The flowery mountains of Copan: pollen remains from Maya temples and tombs / Cameron L. McNeil -- Beauty in troubled times: the flower world in epiclassic Central Mexico, A.D. 600-900 / Andrew D. Turner -- Life in bloom: the Casas Grandes flower world and its antecedents in Northwest Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, and the American Southwest / Michael D. Mathiowetz -- At the reed of life: the Cicada and the emergence in the ancient and contemporary American Southwest / Karl A. Taube -- The flower world of Cholula / John M. D. Pohl --- The flower world in Tenochtitlan: sacrifice, war, and imperialistic agendas / Ángel González López and Lorena Vázquez Vallín -- The flowery matter of chant: the use of organic colors in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican codex painting / Davide Domenici -- The flowers of our lady of Guadalupe: Marian devotional painting and Nahua cosmology after the conquest / James M. Cordova -- Epilogue. "It's raining feather-flower songs": commentary on current flower worlds research / Kelley Hays-Gilpin
Summary:
"The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas. Flower Worlds is the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past."-- Provided by publisher
