The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico

The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico PDF Author: Jill Leslie McKeever Furst
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300072600
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.