Mapping the Aztec capital: The 1524 Nuremberg map of Tenochtitlan, its sources and meanings

Mundy, Barbara E.

doi:10.1080/03085699808592877

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“…Most studies are heavily descriptive (García Cook and Merino Carrión, 1998;Masson, 1999a;Mastache and Cobean, 2000;Mastache et al, 2002;Mundy, 1998;Quintana and Wurster, 2001;Rosenswig and Masson, 2002;Smith et al, 1994;von Hagen and Morris, 1998). In one of the few explicit comparative discussions of urban planning, Gasparini (1993) discusses possible uses of orthogonal planning in the pre-Columbian New World.…”

Section: Urban Forms and Functionsmentioning

confidence: 96%

New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism

Smith

Schreiber

2006

J Archaeol Res

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The past decade has seen a veritable explosion in archaeological research on complex societies in Latin America. In 1993, Smith published an overview of research to that date; this article is one of two bringing that summary up to the present. Our first article, New World states and empires: Economic and social organization (Smith and Schreiber, 2005), dealt with issues regarding economic and social organization. The present article tackles political organization and dynamics, religion, urbanism, and settlement patterns. We also review recent research in the context of various theoretical perspectives, some traditional, some more contemporary, including approaches to history and process, cultural evolution, agency-based models, linguistic prehistory, migration theory, and the relationship between environmental change and cultural events. Our discussion blends empirical findings, methodological advances, and theoretical perspectives.

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Section: Urban Forms and Functionsmentioning

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New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism

Smith

Schreiber

2006

J Archaeol Res

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“…This account sharply contrasts with the previous notion that scientific knowledge was available to all public spheres. 22 The global turn A remarkable historiography followed by many scholars in recent years is the global turn, which accounts for the variable density of world relations when it comes to mobilizing knowledge and technology. A critical post-colonial reading and the global shift in science require a delicate balance: while noting the active participation of post-colonial territories in the construction of knowledge, it should not be forgotten that they existed within asymmetrical power relations.…”

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A brief precis of the institutionalization of history of science in Mexico

Alonso-Pavón¹,

Cheé-Santiago²,

Granados-Riveros³

et al. 2020

Br J Hist Sci

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This short essay offers an overview of some crucial aspects of the history of science in Mexico: its pioneers, and their characteristic ways of historical writing on science since the end of the nineteenth century. From this point, we explore later forms of historiography that have shaped the development of history of science as a professionalized and institutionalized field of research in Mexico. The aim of this task is to highlight the variety of ways in which certain actors sought to understand, interpret and communicate the main concerns and developments of Mexican science at different historical moments, which paved the way for the shaping of the history of science as an academic discipline in this country.

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“…Through his second letter and the Tenochtitlán map, Cortés tried to convince his king of the value of such a conquest, which could supply the Spanish crown with gold and other perishable merchandise (Mundy, 1998: 28). The Map of Nuremberg then became a tool that was quickly used to develop fantasies about the Mexican capital.…”

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“…The Map of Nuremberg then became a tool that was quickly used to develop fantasies about the Mexican capital. This is why many authors have taken a close interest in this map (Maudslay, 1909; Alcocer, 1935; Apenes, 1947; Robertson, 1959; Matos Moctezuma, 1979; 1982; 2001; Toussaint, 1990; Mundy, 1996; 1998; Gresle‐Pouligny, 1999; Russo, 2005).…”

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A Lacustrine Cultural Landscape in the Prehispanic Basin of Mexico

Biar

2020

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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This article provides a new application of Westerdahl's concepts of maritime cultural landscape and maritime cultures within the context of Mesoamerica, and more specifically during the Postclassic period (AD 1325-1521). The results presented here were obtained by transposing maritime archaeological research questions to new fieldwork in the Mexican highlands, using a pluri-disciplinary methodology. Combining archaeology, ethnohistory, iconography, and ethnography allowed to throw new light on the undervalued lacustrine cultural landscape of the Basin of Mexico and its understanding by the Aztecs.

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Mapping the Aztec capital: The 1524 Nuremberg map of Tenochtitlan, its sources and meanings

Cited by 54 publications

References 6 publications

New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism

New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism

A brief precis of the institutionalization of history of science in Mexico

A Lacustrine Cultural Landscape in the Prehispanic Basin of Mexico

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