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Staging Christ'S Passion In Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico

by Louise M. Burkhart

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 Staging Christ’s Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico explores the Passion plays performed in Nahuatl (Aztec) by Indigenous Mexicans living under Spanish colonial occupation. Though sourced from European writings and devotional practices that emphasized the suffering of Christ and his mother, this Nahuatl theatrical tradition grounded the Passion story in the Indigenous corporate community. Passion plays had courted controversy in Europe since their twelfth-century origin, but in New Spain they faced Catholic authorities who questioned the spiritual and intellectual capacity of Indigenous people and, in the eighteenth century, sought to suppress these performances. Six surviving eighteenth-century scripts, variants of an original play possibly composed early in the seventeenth century, reveal how Nahuas passed along this model text while modifying it with new dialogue, characters, and stage techniques. Louise M. Burkhart explores the way Nahuas merged the Passion story with their language, cultural constructs, social norms, and religious practices while also responding to surveillance by Catholic churchmen. Analytical chapters trace significant themes through the six plays and key these to a composite play in English included in the volume. A cast with over fifty distinct roles acted out events extending from Palm Sunday to Christ’s death on the cross. One actor became a localized embodiment of Jesus through a process of investiture and mimesis that carried aspects of pre-Columbian materialized divinity into the later colonial period. The play told afar richer version of the Passion story than what later colonial Nahuas typically learned from their priests or catechists. And by assimilating Jesus to an Indigenous, or macehualli, identity, the players enacted a protest against colonial rule. The situation in eighteenth-century New Spain presents both a unique confrontation between Indigenous communities and Enlightenment era religious reformers and a new chapter in an age-old power game between popular practice and religious orthodoxy. By focusing on how Nahuas localized the universalizing narrative of Christ’s Passion, Staging Christ’s Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico offers an unusually in-depth view of religious life under colonial rule. Burkhart’s <a href="https://passionplaysofeighteenthcenturymexico.omeka.net">accompanying website</a> also makes available transcriptions and translations of the six Nahuatl-language plays, four Spanish-language plays composed in response to the suppression of the Nahuatl practice, and related documentation, providing a valuable resource for anyone interested in consulting the original material. Comments restricted to single page plays composed in response to the suppression of the Nahuatl practice, and related documentation, providing a valuable resource for anyone interested in consulting the original material
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Aztec Antichrist - Performing The Apocalypse In Early Colonial Mexico

by Ben Leeming

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 In Aztec Antichrist, Ben Leeming presents a transcription, translation, and study of two sixteenth-century Nahuatl religious plays that are likely the earliest surviving presentations of the Antichrist legend in the Americas, and possibly the earliest surviving play scripts in the whole of the New World in any language. Discovered in the archives of the Hispanic Society of America in New York inside a notebook of miscellaneous Nahuatl-Christian texts written almost entirely by an Indigenous writer named Fabían de Aquino, the plays are filled with references to human sacrifice, bloodletting, ritual divination, and other religious practices declared "idolatrous" at a time when ecclesiastical authorities actively sought to suppress writing about Indigenous religion. These are Indigenous plays for an Indigenous audience that reveal how Nahuas made sense of Christianity and helped form its colonial image—the title figure is a powerful Indigenous being, an "Aztec Antichrist," who violently opposes the evangelizing efforts of the church and seeks to draw converted Nahuas back to the religious practices of their ancestors. These practices include devotion to Nahua deities such as Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl, and Tezcatlipoca who, in one of the most striking moves made by Aquino, are cast as characters in the plays. Along with the translations, Leeming provides context and analysis highlighting these rare and fascinating examples of early Indigenous American literature that offer a window into the complexity of Nahua interactions with Christianity in the early colonial period. The work is extremely valuable to all students and scholars of Latin American religion, colonialism, Indigenous history, and early modern history and theater.
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Basic K'Ichee' Grammar - 38 Lessons, Revised Edition

by James L. Mondloch

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 The K'ichee'an languages - K'ichee', Kaqchikel, Tz utujil, Sakapulteko, Achi, and Sipakapense - occupy a prominent place among indigenous languages of the Americas because of their historical significance and the number of speakers (one million). This is an extensive and accurate survey of the principal grammatical structures of K'ichee'.
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Basic K'Ichee' Grammar - 38 Lessons

by James L. Mondloch

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 The K'ichee'an languages - K'ichee', Kaqchikel, Tz utujil, Sakapulteko, Achi, and Sipakapense - occupy a prominent place among indigenous languages of the Americas because of their historical significance and the number of speakers (one million). This is an extensive and accurate survey of the principal grammatical structures of K'ichee'.
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Aztec Antichrist - Performing The Apocalypse In Early Colonial Mexico

by Ben Leeming

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Comical Tragedy Of Punch And Judy

by Christopher P. Reilly

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Pifitos- Unknown Lost Poem Of Homer

by Igor Baranko

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Monsters In My Tummy

by Roman Dirge

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 Ever wonder what madness happens inside a person, during times of severity and heartbreak? This book answers this question. Anyone ever crushed by a loved one will be able to relate to this inner saga. This book aims to be disturbing, yet funny in it's way.
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Something At The Window Is Scratching

by Roman Dirge

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The Works: The Hero Sandwich Collection

by Peter Krause

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How Communication Works - Creating Win/Win Relationships

by John K Pollard

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The New Silk Road Becomes The World Land-Bridge

by Michael Billington e Rachel Douglas

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History Of Leadville And Lake County, Colorado - From Mountain Solitude To Metropolis

by Don L. Griswold e Jean Harvey Griswold

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 During the 1880s, when Leadville's economy was at its peak, the town was the second largest in Colorado, a mecca for prospectors, gamblers, and entrepreneurs. This work tells the story of Leadville and Lake County that stretches from the earliest explorations of Upper Arkansas Valley to the beginnings of molybdenum mining in the twentieth century.
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Before Guadalupe - The Virgin Mary In Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature

by Louise M. Burkhart

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Classic Period Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico - Diachronic Inferences From Residnetial Investigations

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 Presents insights the Classic period of the Mexican Gulf Coast. This book discusses the author's excavations at several sites in the Mixtequilla region, describes the deposits and artefacts encountered, and provides interpretations of the sites and their significance.
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Hach Winik, The Lacandon Maya Of Southern Mexico - A Comparative Study Of Two Lowland Maya Societies

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Phoneticism In Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing

by J.S. Justeson e L. Campbell

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 A work on the decipherment of Mayan writing, this book grew out of the Albany conference - a gathering of the leading Mayanists who were working within the modern, linguistically-informed paradigm for the analysis of Mayan hieroglyphic text. It contains nine seminal articles and appendixes, and focuses on decipherment methodology.

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