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

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

David Tavárez

(Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture)

University of Texas Press, 2022

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [424]-440) and index

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2023 - Best Subsequent Book - Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 2023 - Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Social Sciences - Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section 2022 - Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize - New England Council of Latin American Studies 2023 - Honorable Mention, LASA Mexico Social Sciences Book Prize - Mexico Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 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. 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 preserve cosmological accounts, exchanges with divine beings, and protocols of pre-Columbian origin that strongly resemble sections of the Codex Borgia. These texts were sent to Spain as evidence of failed Dominican evangelization efforts, and there they remained, in oblivion, until the 1960s. In this book, David Tavarez dives deep into this formidable archive of ritual and divinatory manuals, the largest calendar corpus in the colonial Americas, and emerges with a rich understanding of Indigenous social and cultural history, Mesoamerican theories of cosmos and time, and Zapotec ancestor worship. Drawing on his knowledge of Zapotec and Nahuatl, two decades of archival research, and a decade of fieldwork, Tavarez dissects Mesoamerican calendars as well as Native resistance and accommodation to the colonial conquest of time, while also addressing entangled transatlantic histories and shining new light on texts still connected to contemporary observances in Zapotec communities.

目次

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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