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On the Lips of Others : Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals / Patrick Thomas Hajovsky.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the AmericasPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292766693
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.01 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Two Moteuczomas -- Fame and Transformation -- The Royal Icon -- Resonances of the Speech Glyph -- Visibility and Invisibility of the Name Glyph -- Absence and Presence of Body -- The Chapultepec Portrait -- Colonial Reflections on Aztec Portraiture -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital city of Tenochtitlan, where his deeds were recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments and his command was expressed in highly refined ritual performances. What did Moteuczoma’s “fame” mean in the Aztec world? How was it created and maintained? In this innovative study, Patrick Hajovsky investigates the king’s inscribed and spoken name, showing how it distinguished his aura from those of his constituencies, especially other Aztec nobles, warriors, and merchants, who also vied for their own grandeur and fame. While Tenochtitlan reached its greatest size and complexity under Moteuczoma, the “Great Speaker” innovated upon fame by tying his very name to the Aztec royal office. As Moteuczoma’s fame transcends Aztec visual and oral culture, Hajovsky brings together a vast body of evidence, including Nahuatl language and poetry, indigenous pictorial manuscripts and written narratives, and archaeological and sculptural artifacts. The kaleidoscopic assortment of sources casts Moteuczoma as a divine king who, while inheriting the fame of past rulers, saw his own reputation become entwined with imperial politics, ideological narratives, and eternal gods. Hajovsky also reflects on posthumous narratives about Moteuczoma, which created a very different sense of his fame as a conquered subject. These contrasting aspects of fame offer important new insights into the politics of personhood and portraiture across Aztec and colonial-period sources.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Two Moteuczomas -- Fame and Transformation -- The Royal Icon -- Resonances of the Speech Glyph -- Visibility and Invisibility of the Name Glyph -- Absence and Presence of Body -- The Chapultepec Portrait -- Colonial Reflections on Aztec Portraiture -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital city of Tenochtitlan, where his deeds were recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments and his command was expressed in highly refined ritual performances. What did Moteuczoma’s “fame” mean in the Aztec world? How was it created and maintained? In this innovative study, Patrick Hajovsky investigates the king’s inscribed and spoken name, showing how it distinguished his aura from those of his constituencies, especially other Aztec nobles, warriors, and merchants, who also vied for their own grandeur and fame. While Tenochtitlan reached its greatest size and complexity under Moteuczoma, the “Great Speaker” innovated upon fame by tying his very name to the Aztec royal office. As Moteuczoma’s fame transcends Aztec visual and oral culture, Hajovsky brings together a vast body of evidence, including Nahuatl language and poetry, indigenous pictorial manuscripts and written narratives, and archaeological and sculptural artifacts. The kaleidoscopic assortment of sources casts Moteuczoma as a divine king who, while inheriting the fame of past rulers, saw his own reputation become entwined with imperial politics, ideological narratives, and eternal gods. Hajovsky also reflects on posthumous narratives about Moteuczoma, which created a very different sense of his fame as a conquered subject. These contrasting aspects of fame offer important new insights into the politics of personhood and portraiture across Aztec and colonial-period sources.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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