{"product_id":"rethinking-zapotec-time-david-tav-rez-9781477324516","title":"Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 -- Best Subsequent Book -- Native American and Indigenous Studies Association \u003cbr\u003e 2023 -- Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Social Sciences -- Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section \u003cbr\u003e 2022 -- Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize -- New England Council of Latin American Studies \u003cbr\u003e 2023 -- Honorable Mention, LASA Mexico Social Sciences Book Prize -- Mexico Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 Dominican evangelization efforts, and there they remained, in oblivion, until the 1960s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this book, David Tav疵ez dives deep into this formidable archive of ritual and divinatory manuals, the largest calendar corpus in the colonial Americas, and emerges with a rich understanding of Indigenous social and cultural history, Mesoamerican theories of cosmos and time, and Zapotec ancestor worship. Drawing on his knowledge of Zapotec and Nahuatl, two decades of archival research, and a decade of fieldwork, Tav疵ez dissects Mesoamerican calendars as well as Native resistance and accommodation to the colonial conquest of time, while also addressing entangled transatlantic histories and shining new light on texts still connected to contemporary observances in Zapotec communities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Tav疵ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477324518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477324516\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 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 7.40w x 1.70d","brand":"David Tav疵ez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043733827839,"sku":"9781477324516","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53c098dd-aefc-418e-9c20-63d29512fc4e.jpg?v=1684968837","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rethinking-zapotec-time-david-tav-rez-9781477324516","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}