The Mixtec Group is the designation given by scholars to a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from the Mixtec people of the state of Oaxaca in the southern part of the Republic of Mexico. They are distinguished by their principally historical and geographical content.[1]
Included in the Mixtec Group are:
The Codex Zouche-Nuttall.
The Codex Selden.
The Codex Colombino-Becker.
The Codex Waecker-Gotter.
The Codex Vindobonensis (or Vienna, as it is sometimes called).
The Codex Bodley.
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The MixtecGroup is the designation given by scholars to a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from the Mixtec people of the state of Oaxaca in the...
The Mixtec culture was the main Mixtec civilization, which lasted from around 1500 BC until being conquered by the Spanish in 1523. The Mixtec region...
The Mixtec (/ˈmiːstɛk, ˈmiːʃtɛk/) languages belong to the Mixtecan group of the Oto-Manguean language family. Mixtec is spoken in Mexico and is closely...
The Mixtec culture (also called the Mixtec civilization) was a pre-hispanic archaeological culture, corresponding to the ancestors of the Mixtec people;...
Mixtec writing originated as a logographic writing system during the Post-Classic period in Mesoamerican history. Records of genealogy, historic events...
distinguished by their religious content, while the pre-Columbian codices of the Mixtecgroup are principally historical. The place of origin and the linguistic identity...
Toltecs. FAMSI – John Pohl's – Ancient Books – MixtecGroup Codices Spores, Ronald (1967). The Mixtec Kings and Their People. Norman, Oklahoma: University...
The Codex Bodley is an important pictographic manuscript and example of Mixtec historiography. It was named after the colloquial name of the Bodleian Library...
in poverty. The 16 groups and the number of speakers of their languages according to the 2005 census are: Zapotec – 357,134 Mixtec – 290,049 Mazateco...
The internal classification of Mixtec is controversial. Many varieties are mutually unintelligible and by that criterion separate languages. In the 16th...
Eight Deer Jaguar Claw (Mixtec: Iya Nacuaa Teyusi Ñaña), or Eight Deer for brevity, was a powerful Mixtec ruler in 11th-century Oaxaca referred to in...
Academia de la Lengua Mixteca) was founded in 1997 by a group of indigenous activists from the Mixtec people, with the aim of creating mechanisms for the...
Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec, or simply Nieves Mixtec, is a variety of Mixtec spoken in the municipality of Ixpantepec Nieves, Oaxaca, Mexico and in San Diego...
of the Mixtec—indigenous Mixtecan-speaking people of La Mixteca in central-southeastern Mexico. It is an important and recurring motif in Mixtec iconography...
Vindobonensis C, or Codex Mexicanus I is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian piece of Mixtec writing. It is a ritual-calendrical and genealogical document dated to the...
Codex Selden (also known as the Codex Añute) is a Mexican manuscript of Mixtec origin. The codex is an account of the genealogy of the Jaltepec dynasty...
valleys were mostly inhabited by the Zapotecs, with the Mixtecs on the western side. These two groups were often in conflict during the pre-Hispanic period...
main religious one in a later period as the area became dominated by the Mixtec. The name Mitla is derived from the Nahuatl name Mictlán, meaning the "place...
contemporary ethnic groups. There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated...
Colombino-Becker, there are cognate accounts in other Mixtec codices, particularly the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. MixtecGroup Troike, Nancy P. "Colombino-Becker Codex"...
and the large expanse of Mixtec languages, spoken by about 511,000 people. The relationship between Trique, Cuicatec, and Mixtec, is an open question. Unpublished...
and the United States for over three generations. The Mixtec people are an example of a social group in which migration had not led to a loss of cultural...
common practice amongst Native Americans in Mesoamerica, other groups like the Mixtecs of Oaxaca continue practicing a bride price based marriage. It...
itself being the probable ancestor of the Post-classic Mixtec and Aztec scripts. Mixtec – Mixtec, 12th - 14th century, the pictographic elements which...
peoples of Central America & Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec & Zapotec. London: Anness Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84681-197-5...
significant archeological sites and elements of the continuing native Zapotec and Mixtec cultures. The city, together with the nearby archeological site of Monte...
Lower Mixteca includes 31 municipalities. The Coastal Mixtecs are a small group. Today, the Mixtecs call themselves Ñuu Savi, the people of the rain. The...
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