Twin City Tales

A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichén Itzá

• Author(s): Lindsay Jones,
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Pages: 482
• ISBN_10: 0870814036
  ISBN_13: 9780870814037
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / History / Prehistoric , History / Latin America / Central America , History / Latin America / Mexico , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Religion / Indigenous, Folk & Tribal , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... By exercising a "hermeneutic of suspicion," Jones contends that most explanations of the resemblance between the two sets of ruins reveals more about Western attitudes toward indigenous American peoples than about the empirical realities of pre-Columbian life. By deploying a "hermeneutic of recovery," Jones then presents a fresh interpretation of the old problem of similitude between Tula and Chichen Itza from the perspective of the history of religions.