Descripción del título
Rethinking Zapotec time : c...
"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, based on traditional Zapotec concepts of time and space, were to be used to plan marriages, burials, and healing treatments, and, most importantly, to provide a detailed schedule for offerings and sacrifices to be given to human ancestors and gods. Using his extensive knowledge of Zapotec, Nahua, and Spanish, Tavárez is attempting the first full interpretation and historical analysis of the collection alongside historical papers in Mexican archives to understand this period of change and instability"--
Monografía
monografia Rebiun39501266 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39501266 m o d cr cnu|||unuuu 220120t20222022txuab oa 001 0 eng d 1292034293 1292063884 1292144500 1292347541 1292356250 9781477324523 electronic bk.) 1477324526 electronic bk.) 9781477324530 electronic bk.) 1477324534 electronic bk.) 9781477324516 1477324518 AU@ 000071468454 22573/cats3267253 JSTOR N$T eng rda pn N$T YDX EBLCP OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO DEGRU OCLCO TFW OCLCQ JSTOR TEU OCLCO OCLCL MUQ HIS 000000 bisacsh HIS 024000 bisacsh 972/.7401 23 Tavárez, David Eduardo author Rethinking Zapotec time cosmology, ritual, and resistance in colonial Mexico David Tavárez First edition Austin University of Texas Press 2022 Austin Austin University of Texas Press 2022 1 online resource (xvii, 458 pages, 8 pages of plates) illustrations (some color), map 1 online resource (xvii, 458 pages, 8 pages of plates) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture Includes bibliographical references and index 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 "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, based on traditional Zapotec concepts of time and space, were to be used to plan marriages, burials, and healing treatments, and, most importantly, to provide a detailed schedule for offerings and sacrifices to be given to human ancestors and gods. Using his extensive knowledge of Zapotec, Nahua, and Spanish, Tavárez is attempting the first full interpretation and historical analysis of the collection alongside historical papers in Mexican archives to understand this period of change and instability"-- Provided by publisher Manuscripts, Zapotec Zapotec mythology- Calendars Religious calendars Zapotec cosmology Zapotec Indians- Social life and customs Zapotec language- Writing Zapotec Indians- History Zapotec Indians- Antiquities Manuscrits zapotèques Mythologie zapotèque- Calendriers Calendriers religieux Zapotèques- Murs et coutumes Zapotèque (Langue)- Écriture Zapotèques- Histoire Zapotèques- Antiquités Cosmologie zapotèque religious calendars. HISTORY / General. Manuscripts, Zapotec. Religious calendars. Zapotec cosmology. Zapotec Indians. Zapotec Indians- Antiquities. Zapotec Indians- Social life and customs. Zapotec language- Writing. Zapotec mythology. dictionaries. calendars (documents) Calendars. History. Dictionaries. Calendars. Dictionnaires. Calendriers. Print version Tavárez, David Eduardo. Rethinking Zapotec time. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022 9781477324516 (DLC) 2021027220 (OCoLC)1245579320 Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture