Sacrifice, Death, and the Origins of Agriculture in the Codex Vienna
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2575510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joelle Monaghan (0000-0003-4774-7550, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author), John Monaghan |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 559-569 |
| Publication date | 1990-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/281286 |
| OpenAlex | W2330805686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper examines a poorly understood scene in the Codex Vienna and is based on linguistic and ethnographic studies carried out in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Vienna is one of the few Precolumbian manuscripts to survive the conquest, and its extensive treatment of ritual and religious subjects makes it unique among the Mixtec codices. The scene in question is interpreted in terms of a myth current among present-day Mixtec speakers, which recounts the first sacrifice made by humans, and which links this sacrifice, and all subsequent ones, to agriculture and human death
Ancient history · Archaeology · CONQUEST · Ethnography · Ethnology · Human sacrifice · Mythology · Sacrifice · Sociology · Anthropology · Classics · History · Latin American history and culture
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| Unique citing works | 32 |
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| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |