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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. 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. 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 Sahagns 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 a pre-Columbian past, therefore, is problematic. Arnold therefore suggests an alternative reading of the texts with reference to the material environment of the Valley of Mexico. By connecting ceremonies to specific water courses, mountains, plants, and animals, Arnold reveals a more encompassing picture of Aztec ceremonies, revealing the gap between indigenous and colonial understandings of land. Indigenous strategies of occupying land in Mexico focused on ceremonies which addressed the material conditions of life, while colonial strategies of occupying land centered around books and other written materials such as Biblical and classical texts, ethnographies, and legal documents. These distinctive ways of occupying Tlalocan, concludes Arnold, had dramatic consequences for the formation of the Americas. Filling a gap in the coverage of Aztec cosmology, Eating Landscape brings hermeneutics to archaeology and linguistic analysis in new ways that will be of interest to historians of religion and archaeologists alike.

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Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes
Life and Death in the Templo Mayor, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: Teotihuacn to the Aztecs, Davd Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions
The Offerings of the Templo Mayor, Leonardo Lpez Lujn
Tamoanchan, Tlalocan: Places of Mist, Alfredo Lpez Austin
Twin City Tales: A Hermenueutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichn Itz, Lindsay Jones
Utopia and History in Mexico: The First Chronicles of Mexican Civilization, 12501569, Georges Baudot
Series Editors:
Davd Carrasco
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Editorial Board:
Michio Araki
Alfredo Lpez Austin
Anthony Aveni
Elizabeth Boone
Doris Heyden
Charles H. Long
Henry B. Nicholson
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Eating Landscape
Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan
Philip P. Arnold
University Press of Colorado 1999
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Copyright 1999 by the University Press of Colorado
International Standard Book Number 0-87081-518-0
Published by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arnold, Philip P., 1957
Aztec and European occupation of Tlalocan, the eating landscape /
Philip P. Arnold.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87081-518-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. AztecsRites and ceremonies. 2. AztecsLand tenure.
3. Aztec cosmology. 4. Tlaloc (Aztec diety) 5. Geographical
perceptionMexicoMexico, Valley ofHistory. I. Title.
F1219.76.R57A75 1999
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Preface
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1. Introduction: Orienting Questions and Methods
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The Matter of Understanding
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Part I: Explorations of Tlalocan
2. Introduction to a Mesoamerican Landscape
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Tlaloc and the Sources
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Etymologies of Tlaloc
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Tlaloc Iconography at Teotihuacan
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Tlaloc Archaeology, Ethnology, and Ecology
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Templo Mayor
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The Body in Mesoamerican Time and Space
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