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The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today. This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual \"language\" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

Prehispanic picture manuscripts provide rich information on past music cultures, which otherwise may have not been preserved. To exemplify, the music iconography of the Codex Nuttall is reviewed, a manuscript belonging to the Mixtec culture, which flourished during the postclassic period of Mesoamerica, in the present-day State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Terraciano uses a variety of Mixtec- and Spanish-language sources to define the nature and internal organization of Mixtec communities in the sixteenth century, and examines some aspects of their reorganization and transformation during the colonial period. In particular, he focuses on two components of the colonial community in the light of a recent ethnography from the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca.

En este artículo se estudian las formas de representación de la figura humana en los libros coloniales mayas de Chilam Balam. Tras un repaso de los cánones de representación mayas del período Posclásico, se analizan algunas de las imágenes de los Chilam Balam centrándose en las características que perduraron y que explican el resultado aparentemente descuidado de estas representaciones. Finalmente, se ofrece una reflexión acerca de estas imágenes como fruto de un complejo proceso que dio lugar a una nueva tradición visual.

\"The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries\" by Kevin Terraciano is reviewed.

Young reviews The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries by Kevin Terraciano.