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Script and glyph : pre-hispanic history, colonial bookmaking and the "Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca"Leibsohn, Dana. AuteurPillsbury, Joanne. Editeur scientifiqueDumbarton Oaks research library and collection (Washington, D.C.). Éditeur scientifiqueDana Leibsohn is Associate Professor of Art at Smith College.The&#160;Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca&#160;was created at a pivotal transitional moment, bridging an era when pictorial manuscripts dominated and one that witnessed the rising hegemony of alphabetic texts. The&#160;Historia&#160;was composed using both systems, yet, as Dana Leibsohn notes, neither was fully trusted. Leibsohn analyzes the choices made by the patron, don Alonso de Castañeda, and&#160;tlacuilos&#160;enlisted to create the manuscript. How does one create a history? Which narratives are included, and which are strikingly absent? Which modes of representation are called upon to convey certain types of information? Leibsohn argues how the very practice of history-keeping itself sustains or challenges a current reality.Central to the&#160;Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca&#160;is the creation, representation, and understanding of landscape. In the recording of ancestral migrations, don Alonso delineates territory, noting boundaries and their histories, and also reveals relationships with a sacred landscape, detailing how relationships with territory were constantly re-inscribed. In this sense,&#160;Script and Glyph&#160;is a particularly appropriate volume for Dumbarton Oaks, as it crosses the boundaries of Pre-Columbian and Landscape areas of study. The volume is beautifully illustrated with color images from the manuscript itself.List of Illustrations ixForeword xiPreface xnAcknowledgements XVIntroduction : Pre-Hispanic Legacies, Colonial Books IChapter 1: Subjects of History 13Chapter 2: Of Allies and Rivals 38Chapter 3: Writing the Land 62Chapter 4: In the Guise of a Pre-Hispanic Past 93Appendix 1: Major Paintings from the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca 105Appendix 2: Sixteenth-Century Documents from Cuauhtinchan 169Bibliography 178Index 194Editeur : Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University PressDate de parution : 2009 Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-199 p.) : fac-sim. en coul.,&#160;carte, couv. ill. en coul.  ; 28 cm Collection : (Studies in pre-Columbian art &#38; archaeology ; 36).Bibliogr. p. 178-193. Index ISBN 978-0-88402-361-6. - ISBN 0-88402-361-3 (rel.)&#160; PARIS-BnF : Tolbiac - Rez-de-jardin - magasin : 2010-288655 PARIS-Médiathèque MQB Disponible en ligne, url : &#60;https://www.jstor.org/stable/41263482&#62;.