Territory and Ritual Landscape in the Colombino Codex: Oaxaca Coast, Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Through a geographical and historical analysis, we propose to interpret the territorial and ritual organization of the landscapes in the Colombino Codex, which alludes mainly to the heroic feats of Lord 8 Venado Garra Jaguar, in the Mixteca Coastal region in Oaxaca. The Codex Colombino, the only one preserved in Mexico, forms a unit with the Codex Becker I, which is preserved in Vienna, Austria. Among other specialists, it has been studied by Alfonso Caso, Mary Elizabeth Smith, and Manuel Hermann Lejarazu. Our specific objective is the elaboration of a map that allows the interpretation of the toponyms, the elements of the landscape and its dynamics, as much in the physical and tangible space as in the liminal and sacred one (Cosmo-landscape).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo

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Abstract Id(s): 32110