Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933)
Auteur de The Codex Nuttall
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Zelia Nuttall
New light on Drake; a collection of documents relating to his voyage of circumnavigation, 1577-1580 (1914) 7 exemplaires
The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations: A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient… (2004) 5 exemplaires
The book at the life of the ancient Mexicans: Contining an account of their rites and superstitions 4 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Nutall, Zelia Maria Madgalena
- Date de naissance
- 1857-09-06
- Date de décès
- 1933-04-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Coyoacan, Mexico
- Lieux de résidence
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Études
- Bedford College for Women of the University of London
- Professions
- anthropologist
archaeologist
manuscript researcher - Relations
- Pinart, Alphonse Louis (husband) m.1880, div.
- Organisations
- American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
American Geographical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Hispanic Society of America
American Philosophical Society - Prix et distinctions
- Honorary Assistant in Mexican Archaeology at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University
- Courte biographie
- Zelia Nuttall was born in San Francisco, California, to Anglo-Irish parents. In 1865, her father, a doctor, took his family to Europe where they lived until Zelia was 19. She had by then became proficient in several languages. She attended Bedford College for Women of the University of London. In 1880, she married Alphonse Louis Pinart, a French anthropologist and linguist with whom she had a daughter; the couple later divorced. In 1884, Zelia made her first visit to Mexico along with her mother, two siblings, and her daughter. She spent five months working in the National Museum, and began collecting small terracotta heads from San Juan Teotihuacan. These were the subject of her first scholarly paper published in 1886. She was given the title of Honorary Assistant in Mexican Archaeology at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, a position she held for 47 years. After some 13 years of extensive travel and research, she published her largest work, The Fundamental Principles of New and Old World Civilizations (1901), an analysis of cultures ranging from the Maya, Zuñi, and Pacific Islanders to Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Western European. Her most famous investigation was the search for the provenance of the beautiful pre-Columbia Zapotecan Manuscript, painted by Mixtec artists, which she traced from its origins to the Monastery of San Marco, Florence, to its later owner. The manuscript was published by the Peabody Museum and re-named the Codex Nuttall in her honor. In 1890, she had found the Codex Magliabecchiano XIII. 3, which was published in 1903 by the University of California under the title The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans. She settled permanently in Mexico in 1902.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 202
- Popularité
- #109,082
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 13