Description
About the Author
Justyna Olko is a professor in the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at the University of Warsaw. She leads Europe and America in Contact, an international team project funded by the European Research Council and focusing on the cross-cultural transfer manifest in Nahua language and culture. She is also involved in an international program centered on the revitalization of Nahuatl and other endangered languages.
Reviews
"This is an important contribution to pre-Columbian and colonial Mexican studies. Staying remarkably focused throughout the book, the author thoroughly describes and insightfully interprets the insignia of rank of the Nahua (Aztec) peoples both before and after the Spanish conquest, placing these insignia in broad contexts. A crucial feature of the book is its use of an extraordinary variety of sources, revealing new patterns and variations (especially regional) in the use of status-related insignia and showing their persistence after the Spanish conquest. Beyond its interpretive value, this book is also a particularly useful reference work for related disciplines." -Frances Berdan, California State University, San Bernardino, author of The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society and coeditor of The Codex Mendoza
"The definitive work for decades to come on this important topic, and a model of innovative research crossing traditional disciplinary and methodological boundaries. It unites the pre- and postconquest periods, imperial core and regional settings, pictorial and textual sources, and language and visual image." -Rebecca Horn, University of Utah, author of Postconquest Coyoacan
"A unique, significant monument. The research is simply stupendous. An exceptional work." -James Lockhart, University of California, Los Angeles, author of The Nahuas after the Conquest
"Olko has asked a large question, bringing to the forefront issues of status, prestige, and, probably, pedigree. The depth of her knowledge of early Nahua accoutrements and prerogatives across a broad spectrum of peoples is exceptional...Olko has written an erudite, meaningful work to ensure that the argot of the Nahua visual canon is carried forward." -Susan Schroeder, Journal of Anthropological Research
"[Olko's book] will serve as the standard work on items and imagery of rank and nobility for decades to come, and both the author and the University Press of Colorado deserve plaudits for its publication."-Susan Kellogg, Hispanic American Historical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781607322405
Author Justyna Olko
Format Hardback
Page Count 528
Imprint University Press of Colorado
Publisher University Press of Colorado
Weight(grams) 824g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm