El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”

During their ceremonies, the Mexica or Aztecs of central Mexico used certain costumes woven with cotton or vegetable fibres, or simply made of amate paper, covered with designs. This article seeks to explain the variety of these ritual garments utilizing a native concept of "personification&quo...

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Main Author: Danièle Dehouve
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2016-06-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/69305
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description During their ceremonies, the Mexica or Aztecs of central Mexico used certain costumes woven with cotton or vegetable fibres, or simply made of amate paper, covered with designs. This article seeks to explain the variety of these ritual garments utilizing a native concept of "personification" (ixiptla in nahuatl), in which a support (the "impersonator") is covered with a garment and various adornments belonging to a god (the "personified"), in order to transform it into the god’s divine incarnation.
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spelling doaj.art-5ef33ab39f6d4e0597b96b5274aaf4b22024-02-14T16:54:20ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522016-06-0110.4000/nuevomundo.69305El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”Danièle DehouveDuring their ceremonies, the Mexica or Aztecs of central Mexico used certain costumes woven with cotton or vegetable fibres, or simply made of amate paper, covered with designs. This article seeks to explain the variety of these ritual garments utilizing a native concept of "personification" (ixiptla in nahuatl), in which a support (the "impersonator") is covered with a garment and various adornments belonging to a god (the "personified"), in order to transform it into the god’s divine incarnation.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/69305ritualAztecsclothesimpersonatorixiptla
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El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”
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title El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”
title_full El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”
title_fullStr El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”
title_full_unstemmed El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”
title_short El papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de “personificación”
title_sort el papel de la vestimenta en los rituales mexicas de personificacion
topic ritual
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