{"product_id":"rethinking-zapotec-time-9781477324516","title":"Rethinking Zapotec Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2023  Best Subsequent Book  Native American and Indigenous Studies Association2023  Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Social Sciences  Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section2022  Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize  New England Council of Latin American StudiesAs 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 Dom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Rethinking Time: Zapotec and Nahua Cycles after the Conquest\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Northern Zapotec Writing, Literacy, and Society\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Shapes of the Universe: Theories of Time and Space\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Deities, Sacred Beings, and Their Feasts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Singing the Ancestors Back to Earth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Confronting Christianity: Resistance, Adaptation, Reception\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Analytical Translation of Songbooks 100 and 101, and Manual 1, Excerpt\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408960725335,"sku":"9781477324516","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477324516.jpg?v=1730504871","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-zapotec-time-9781477324516","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}