{"product_id":"aztec-religion-and-art-of-isabel-laack-9789004391451","title":"Aztec Religion and Art of Writing: Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality.\u003cbr\u003e Laack transcends the concept of \"sacred scripture\" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication.\u003cbr\u003e This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system.\" - Davíd Carrasco, \u003ci\u003eHarvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isabel Laack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004391452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004391451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Isabel Laack","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48066404548863,"sku":"9789004391451","price":236.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c6174cbd-78f0-417c-b354-0e2f65987f17.jpg?v=1768678309","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aztec-religion-and-art-of-isabel-laack-9789004391451","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}