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How do people meaningfully occupy the land? In sixteenth-century Mexico, Aztec and Spanish understandings of land formed the basis of their cultural identities. Their distinctive conceptions of land also established the traumatic character of cultural contact. <p>As Philip P. Arnold maintains in Eating Landscape, central to Aztec meanings of land were ceremonies to Tlaloc, god of rain, fertility, and earth. These ceremonies included child sacrifices for rain and corn, priestly auto-sacrifices at lakes, mountain veneration, and ancestor worship. What unifies these ceremonies, contends Arnold, is the Aztec understanding of food. By feeding deities of the land, human beings could eat. Seeing the valley of Mexico as Tlalocan (the place of Tlaloc) and characterizing it as an "eating landscape" illustrates an Aztec mode of occupying land.</p> <p>At the same time, Arnold demonstrates that the very texts that open a window on Tlaloc ceremonies were created by Spanish missionaries. Particularly important was Sahagún's Florentine Codex, which-as was the case with the work of other ethnographers-was intended to destroy Aztec ceremonies by exposing them through writing. Using texts to reveal

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Author

Arnold, Philip P. & Moctezuma, Eduardo M. & Carrasco, David

Publisher

Univ Pr of Colorado; University Press of Colorado

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870816949

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology