 | Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Attributes of rank carried profound symbolic meaning, encoding subtle messages about political and social status, ethnic and gender identity, regional origin, individual and community history, and claims to privilege. Justyna Olko is a professor in the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at the University of Warsaw. She leads Europe and America in Contact, an international team project funded by the European Research Council and focusing on the cross-cultural transfer manifest in Nahua language and culture. She is also involved in an international program centered on the revitalization of Nahuatl and other endangered languages. |
