The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary : Households and Lands in Sixteenth-century TepetlaoztocThe Codice de Santa Maria Asuncion, one of the most comprehensive native census pictoral manuscripts that has survived from central Mexico, provides a wealth of information on native rural life, social structure, settlement patterns, land tenure, household composition, political and economic organization, and cultural ecology and is one of a handful of remaining examples of indigenous record keeping. A facsimile edition. |
Contents
Historical Context and Kindred Documents | 1 |
Organization of the Codex and Evidence of Missing | 8 |
The Missing Cover and Title Page and Extant | 14 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
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