Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Published by University of Texas Press, 2022
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First Edition. 10.25 x 7.5 inches. 4to, white paper boards with gold-stamped text to spine. Slight dent on foredge of front board. Back bottom corner slightly bumped. Blank endpapers. Eight unpaginated pages of full color plates between pages 220 and 221. Internal text is clean adn unmarked. xvii, 458pp. Fine/Fine. Red, white, and yellow dustjacket with black text. Crease to head and tail of spine. Miniscule shelfwear at corners. Jacket wrapped in a protective mylar sleeve. Unless otherwise noted, any variations in color to images are due to photography shadows, not discoloration of item. [World History].
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- Title
- Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico
- Author
- Tavárez, David
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1477324518
- ISBN 13
- 9781477324516
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 7.5 inches width by 10 inches height by 0 inches depth
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- History
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
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 Tavárez 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, Tavárez 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.
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