Rethinking Zapotec time : cosmology, ritual, and resistance in colonial Mexico

Rethinking Zapotec time cosmology, ritual, and resistance in colonial Mexico

"In this project, David Tavárez examines the largest and least-known corpus of Indigenous religious texts in the colonial Americas. These were detailed calendars and cosmologies based on pre-Columbian Zapotec cultural norms written by Indigenous scholars for other natives. These calendars, base...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tavárez, David Eduardo, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press 2022
Edición:First edition, 2022
Colección:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Materias:
Manuscritos mexicanos.
Zapotecas (Indios) > Ritos y ceremonias.
Mitología zapoteca
Cosmología indígena americana.
Zapotecas (Indios) > Usos y costumbres.
Zapotecas (Indios) > Historia.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Rethinking time: Zapotec and Nahua cycles after the conquest
  • Northern Zapotec writing, literacy, and society
  • The shapes of the universe: theories of time and space
  • Deities, sacred beings, and their feasts
  • Singing the ancestors back to Earth
  • Confronting Christianity: resistance, adaptation, reception
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix. Analytical translation of Songbooks 100 and 101, and Manual 1, excerpt.

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