{"product_id":"dancing-the-new-world-paul-a-scolieri-9780292744929","title":"Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e de la Torre Bueno(R) Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Christopher Columbus to \"first anthropologist\" Friar Bernardino de Sahag佖, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing the New World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul A. Scolieri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292744927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292744929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 8.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e de La Torre Bueno Prize - Special Citation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014","brand":"Paul A. Scolieri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995508310271,"sku":"9780292744929","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8434aea-db77-4c78-97a0-08146a5ab4af.jpg?v=1683336216","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dancing-the-new-world-paul-a-scolieri-9780292744929","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}