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Taken from the lips : gender and eros in Mesoamerican religions / by Sylvia Marcos ; with a foreword by Catherine Keller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marcos, Sylvia.
- Series:
- Religion in the Americas series ; v. 5.
- Religion in the Americas series, 1542-1279 ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of Mexico--Religion.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies.
- Indian women--Mexico--Historiography.
- Indian women.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects--Mexico.
- Human body.
- Sex role--Mexico.
- Sex role.
- Mexico--Social life and customs.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume deals with the world of women in Mesoamerica, discussing particularly the religious and ritual aspects of gender. As its sources, it uses colonial documents of the contact period with European cultures, testimonies of the subjugated indigenous during the colonial period , as well as contemporary ethnographic studies The book starts with an analysis of healing rituals in contemporary Mexico , focusing on the "refunctionalization" of ancient beliefs and practices.From there it moves spiral-like between pre-hispanic and colonial pasts and diverse presents. The section on "orality" is a methodological proposal for the study of indigenous religious traditions.The book is illustrated with reproductions of ancient codices.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE CURING AND COSMOLOGY
- CHAPTER TWO DUALITY, FLUIDITY, AND EQUILIBRIUM
- CHAPTER THREE THE SACRED EARTH OF THE NAHUAS
- CHAPTER FOUR GENDER AND HEALING RITUALS
- CHAPTER FIVE FUSION WITH THE SACRED: PERCEPTIONS OF WOMEN HEALERS
- CHAPTER SIX CORPOREALITY, RELIGIOUS METAPHOR, AND NARRATIVE
- CHAPTER SEVEN INDIGENOUS EROTICISM AND COLONIAL MORALITY: THE CONFESSION MANUALS OF NEW SPAIN
- CHAPTER EIGHT SCATTERING OF JADES: GENDERED MORAL DISCOURSES OF THE WISE OLD WOMEN AND MEN
- CHAPTER NINE BEYOND MESOAMERICA: THE HERMENEUTICS OF ORALITY
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-136) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-39697-4
- 9786611396978
- 90-474-0868-3
- OCLC:
- 320326426
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047408680 DOI
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