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Auteur(s) : Scolieri, Paul A.
Titre(s) : Dancing the new world [Texte imprimé] : Aztecs, Spaniards, and the choreography of conquest / Paul A. Scolieri
Publication : Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-205 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm
Comprend : On the Areíto: Discovering Dance in the New World ; Unfaithful Imitation: Friar
Toribio de Benavente "Motolinía" and the "Counterfeit" Histories of Dance ; The
Sacrifices of Representation: Dance in the Writings of Friar Bernardino de Sahagún
; Dances of Death: The Massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl ; The Mystery of Movement:
Dancing in Colonial New Spain ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index
"From Christopher Columbus to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún,
fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and
travelers wrote about the "Indian" dances they encountered throughout the New World.
This was especially true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented
native dances in an attempt to identify and eradicate the "idolatrous" behaviors of
the Aztec, the largest indigenous empire in Mesoamerica at the time of its European
discovery. Dancing the New World traces the transformation of the Aztec empire into
a Spanish colony through written and visual representations of dance in colonial discourse--the
vast constellation of chronicles, histories, letters, and travel books by Europeans
in and about the New World. Scolieri analyzes how the chroniclers used the Indian
dancing body to represent their own experiences of wonder and terror in the New World,
as well as to justify, lament, and/or deny their role in its political, spiritual,
and physical conquest. He also reveals that Spaniards and Aztecs shared an understanding
that dance played an important role in the formation, maintenance, and representation
of imperial power, and describes how Spaniards compelled Indians to perform dances
that dramatized their own conquest, thereby transforming them into colonial subjects.
Scolieri's pathfinding analysis of the vast colonial "dance archive" conclusively
demonstrates that dance played a crucial role in one of the defining moments in modern
history--the European colonization of the Americas."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Danse indienne d'Amérique -- Mexique
Danse -- Anthropologie -- Mexique
Aztèques -- Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux
Mexique -- 1540-1810 (Colonie espagnole)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780292744929 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0292744927 (cloth) (alk. paper)
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