The Imagination of Matter: Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions

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Front Cover Copyright Table of Contents Acknowledgements Dedication Offenses, Perspectives and the Religious Imagination in the Study of Mesoamerican Religions Part I Hermeneutics and the Imagination of Mater European Spirit and Mesoamerican Matter: Sahagún and the "Crisis of Representation" in Sixteenth-Century Ethnography Thematical Units in Mesoamerican Religion: Why deer hunting and adultery are a dangerous combination The Image of Huitzilopochtli: Changing Ideas and Visual Manifestations of the Aztec God Part II Astronomy, Skyscapes and the Imagination of Mater The Role of Astronomical Orientation in the Delineation of World View: A Center and Periphery Model A Seasonal Calendar with Venus Periods in Codex Borgia 29-46 Templo Mayor: Dual Symbol of the Passing of Time Part III Landscapes and the Imagination of Matter Geography, Climate and the Observation of Nature in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica Coronation at Tenochtitlan Part IV The Body and the Imagination of Mater The Body, Ethics and Cosmos: Aztec Physiology The Skin and Hair of Tlaltecuhtli