As the first exhaustive translation and analysis of an extraordinary Zapotec calendar and ritual song corpus, seized in New Spain in 1704, this book expands our understanding of Mesoamerican history, cosmology, and culture.
As the first exhaustive translation and analysis of an extraordinary Zapotec calendar and ritual song corpus, seized in New Spain in 1704, this book expands our understanding of Mesoamerican history, cosmology, and culture.
David Tavárez is Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College and a recent Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico, the editor of Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America, and the coauthor of Painted Words and Chimalpahin's Conquest.
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List of Illustrations and Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Rethinking Time: Zapotec and Nahua Cycles after the Conquest Chapter 3. Northern Zapotec Writing, Literacy, and Society Chapter 4. The Shapes of the Universe: Theories of Time and Space Chapter 5. Deities, Sacred Beings, and Their Feasts Chapter 6. Singing the Ancestors Back to Earth Chapter 7. Confronting Christianity: Resistance, Adaptation, Reception Chapter 8. Conclusions Appendix. Analytical Translation of Songbooks 100 and 101, and Manual 1, Excerpt Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations and Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Rethinking Time: Zapotec and Nahua Cycles after the Conquest Chapter 3. Northern Zapotec Writing, Literacy, and Society Chapter 4. The Shapes of the Universe: Theories of Time and Space Chapter 5. Deities, Sacred Beings, and Their Feasts Chapter 6. Singing the Ancestors Back to Earth Chapter 7. Confronting Christianity: Resistance, Adaptation, Reception Chapter 8. Conclusions Appendix. Analytical Translation of Songbooks 100 and 101, and Manual 1, Excerpt Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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