Rethinking Zapotec Time : : Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico / / David Tavárez.
In 1702, after the brutal suppression of a Zapotec revolt, the bishop of Oaxaca proclaimed an amnesty for idolatry in exchange for collective confessions. To evade conflict, Northern Zapotec communities denounced ritual specialists and surrendered sacred songs and 102 divinatory manuals, which prese...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (486 p.) :; 42 b&w photos, 8-page color insert, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter one. Introduction
- Chapter two. Rethinking Time: Zapotec and Nahua Cycles after the Conquest
- Chapter three. Northern Zapotec Writing, Literacy, and Society
- Chapter four. The Shapes of the Universe: Theories of Time and Space
- Chapter five. Deities, Sacred Beings, and Their Feasts
- Chapter six. Singing the Ancestors Back to Earth
- Chapter seven. Confronting Christianity: Resistance, Adaptation, Reception
- Chapter eight. Conclusions
- Appendix. Analytical Translations of Songbooks 100 and 101, and Manual 1, Excerpt
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index