Taken from the lips : : gender and eros in Mesoamerican religions / / by Sylvia Marcos ; with a foreword by Catherine Keller.
This volume deals with the world of women in Mesoamerica, discussing particularly the religious and ritual aspects of gender. As its sources, it uses colonial documents of the contact period with European cultures, testimonies of the subjugated indigenous during the colonial period , as well as cont...
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| Superior document: | Religion in the Americas series, v. 5 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion in the Americas series ;
v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE CURING AND COSMOLOGY
- CHAPTER TWO DUALITY, FLUIDITY, AND EQUILIBRIUM
- CHAPTER THREE THE SACRED EARTH OF THE NAHUAS
- CHAPTER FOUR GENDER AND HEALING RITUALS
- CHAPTER FIVE FUSION WITH THE SACRED: PERCEPTIONS OF WOMEN HEALERS
- CHAPTER SIX CORPOREALITY, RELIGIOUS METAPHOR, AND NARRATIVE
- CHAPTER SEVEN INDIGENOUS EROTICISM AND COLONIAL MORALITY: THE CONFESSION MANUALS OF NEW SPAIN
- CHAPTER EIGHT SCATTERING OF JADES: GENDERED MORAL DISCOURSES OF THE WISE OLD WOMEN AND MEN
- CHAPTER NINE BEYOND MESOAMERICA: THE HERMENEUTICS OF ORALITY
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.