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Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest

2013 the University of Texas Press ;ISBN: 9780292744929 ;ISBN: 0292744927 ;EISBN: 9780292744936 ;EISBN: 0292744935 ;DOI: 10.7560/744929 ;OCLC: 932314353 ;LCCallNum: F1219.76.D35S36 2013

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  • Title:
    Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest
  • Author: Scolieri, Paul A
  • Subjects: Anthropological aspects ; Aztec dance ; Aztecs ; Aztecs-First contact with other peoples ; Dance ; Dance-Anthropological aspects-Mexico ; First contact with Europeans ; Folk ; HISTORY ; Indian dance ; Indian dance-Mexico ; Latin America ; Mexico ; Mexico-History-Spanish colony, 1540-1810 ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Spanish colony, 1540–1810
  • Description: 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 Worldtraces 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: Austin: University of Texas Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 227
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780292744929
    ISBN: 0292744927
    EISBN: 9780292744936
    EISBN: 0292744935
    DOI: 10.7560/744929
    OCLC: 932314353
    LCCallNum: F1219.76.D35S36 2013
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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