Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage

Davíd Carrasco is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, professor of history of religions at Harvard University, editor of UPC's Mesoamerican Worlds series and editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. His works include Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage, Moctezuma's Mexico, Waiting for the Dawn, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (University Press of Colorado), and City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (Beacon).

• ; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reimagining the Classic Heritage in Mesoamerica: Continuities and Fractures in Time, Space, and Scholarship; Carrasco; David; Jones; Lindsay; Sessions; Scott; PART I:; The Paradigm Shifts in Mesoamerican Studies; 1.; The Myth and Reality of Zuyua: The Feathered Serpent and Mesoamerican Transformations from the Classic to the Postclassic; Austin; Alfredo Lopez; Lujan; Leonardo Lopez; PART II:; Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Time and History; 2.; The Construction of the Underworld in Central Mexico; Manzanilla; Linda; 3.; Teotihuacan as an Origin for Postclassic Feathered Serpent Symbolism; Sugiyama; Saburo; 4.; The Iconography of the Feathered Serpent in Late Postclassic Central Mexico; Nicholson; H. B.; 5.; From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: City Planning, Caves, and Streams of Red and Blue Waters; Heyden; Doris; 6.; From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: Their Great Temples; Moctezuma; Eduardo Matos; 7.; Teotihuacan Cultural Traditions Transmitted into the Postclassic According to Recent Excavations; Castro; Ruben Cabrera; 8.; The 9-Xi Vase: A Classic Thin Orange Vessel Found at Tenochtitlan; Lujan; Leonardo Lopez; Neff; Hector; Sugiyama; Saburo; PART III:; Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Space and Sacred Geography; 9.; Out of Teotihuacan: Origins of the Celestial Canon in Mesoamerica; Aveni; Anthony F.; 10.; The Turquoise Hearth: Fire, Self-Sacrifice, and the Central Mexican Cult of War; Taube; Karl; 11.; Tollan Cholollan and the Legacy of Legitimacy During the Classic-Postclassic Transition; McCafferty; Geoffrey G.; PART IV:; Classic Teotihuacan in the Context of Mesoamerican Scholarship and Intellectual History; 12.; Venerable Place of Beginnings: The Aztec Understanding of Teotihuacan; Boone; Elizabeth H.; 13.; Calendrics and Ritual Landscape at Teotihuacan: Themes of Continuity in Mesoamerican "Cosmovision"; Broda; Johanna; 14.; Teotihuacan and the Maya: A Classic Heritage; Fash; William L.; Fash; Barbara W.; 15.; "The Arrival of Strangers": Teotihuacan and Tollan in Classic Maya History; Stuart; David; 16.; Parallel Consumptive Cosmologies; Arnold; Philip P.; Editors and Contributors; Index;

"This volume is the most important treatment of the subject to date. . . . Born of a combination of advances in epigraphy, improved archaeological techniques, and detailed iconographic analyses - all on display here - this Mesoamerican 'new history' is the single most important intellectual event in the field in recent times." —Hispanic American Historical Review