The passion according to the wooden drum: The Christian appropriation of a zapotec ritual genre in new Spain

Americas

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 413-444

  Tavárez, David ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 43549106239     PISSN: 00031615     EISSN: 15336247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003161500064543     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (82)

1. For an influential appraisal of the Zapotec calendar and Zapotec religion, see Joyce Marcus, Mesoamerican Writing Systems (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
2. Archivo General de la Nación, México (AGN) Inquisición, vol. 437, part I
3. See José Alcina Franch, Calendario y religión entre los zapotecos (Mexico: UNAM,1993)
4. idem, " Mapas y calendarios zapotecos; siglos XVI y XVII," Historia del Arte en Oaxaca, vol. 2 (Oaxaca: CONCA, Gobierno de Oaxaca, 1998), pp. 173-191
5. Arthur Miller, "Transformations of Time and Space: Oaxaca, Mexico, circa 1500-1700," in Images of Memory. On Remembering and Representation, eds. Susanne Küchler and Walter Melion (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), pp. 141-175
6. idem, "Espacio, tiempo y poder entre los zapotecas de la sierra," Acervos: Boletín de los Archivos y Bibliotecas de Oaxaca 10:3 (1998), pp. 17-20
7. David Tavárez, "Colonial evangelization and native resistance: The interplay of native political autonomy and ritual practices in Villa Alta (New Spain), 1700-1704." Interpreting Colonialism, eds. Byron Wells and Philip Stewart (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2004), pp. 209-230
8. See Ramón Arzápalo, El ritual del los bacabes (Mexico: UNAM, 1987)
9. Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, El libro de los Cantares de Dzitbalché (Mexico: INAH, 1965)
10. idem, El libro de los libros de Chilam Balam (Mexico: FCE, 1969)
11. Munro Edmonson, The ancient future of the Itza: The book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982)
12. idem, Heaven born Merida and its destiny: the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986)
13. Ralph Roys, Ritual of the Bacabs (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965)
14. idem, The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967)
15. See Serge Gruzinski, The Conquest of Mexico (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993)
16. Kevin Terraciano and Lisa Sousa, "The 'Original Conquest' of Oaxaca: Nahua and Mixtec Accounts of the Spanish Conquest," Ethnohistory 50:2 (2003), pp. 349-400
17. and Stephanie Wood, Transcending Conquest. Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
18. Louise Burkhart, "The Amanuenses Have Appropriated the Text: Interpreting a Nahuatl Song of Santiago," in On the Translation of Native American Literatures, ed. Brian Swann (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), pp. 339-355
19. Louise Burkhart, "The Voyage of Saint Amaro: A Spanish legend in Nahuatl Literature," Colonial Latin American Review 4 (1995), pp. 29-57
20. Alfredo López Austin, "Un repertorio de los tiempos en idioma náhuatl," Anales de Antropología 10 (1973) 285-296
21. David Tavárez, "La idolatría letrada: Un análisis comparativo de textos clandestinos rituales y devocionales en comunidades nahuas y zapotecas, 1613-1654," Historia Mexicana 194, 49:2 (1999), pp. 197-252
22. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig, Treatise on the Heathen Institutions that Today Live Among the Indians Native to this New Spain (1629) (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984)
23. Michael Coe and R. Whittaker, Aztec Sorcerers in Seventeenth-Century Mexico (Albany: SUNY Press, 1982)
24. Córdova, Vocabulario, 1578
25. John Bierhorst, Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985), pp. 72-74
26. Francisco de Burgoa, Geográfica descripción, vol. I (Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, [1674] 1989), p. 371
27. See Barrera Vázquez, Cantares de Dzitbalché, 1965
28. William F. Hanks, "Discourse genres in a theory of practice," American Ethnologist 14:4 (1987), p. 670
29. Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, "La estructura de la poesía náhuatl vista por sus variantes," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 14 (1980), pp. 15-65
30. Bierhorst, Cantares Mexicanos, 1985, p. 42
31. Juan José Rendón, Diversificación de las lenguas zapotecas (Mexico: CIESAS, 1995), pp. 157-199. Terrence Kaufman's recent work, cited below, seems to confirm these groupings
32. For a thorough discussion of the establishment of colonial institutions in Villa Alta, see John K. Chance, The Conquest of the Sierra (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989)
33. Francisco de Burgoa, Palestra Historial (Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, [1670] 1989), p. 96
34. See Solange Alberro, Inquisición y sociedad en Mexico, 1571-1700 (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988)
35. Richard E. Greenleaf, "The Inquisition and the Indians of New Spain: A Study in Jurisdictional Confusion," The Americas 22:2 (1965), pp. 138-166
36. idem, The Mexican Inquisition of the Sixteenth Century (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969)
37. Sariñana may have been inspired by inquisitorial precedent. In Mexico City, in the early seventeenth century, the Holy Office erected a prisión perpetua for proselytizing Jews and heretics; see Alberro, Inquisición, 1988, pp. 203-205
38. David Tavárez, "Naming the Trinity: From Ideologies of Translation to Dialectics of Reception in Colonial Nahua Texts, 1547-1771," Colonial Latin American Review 9:1 (2000), pp. 21-47
39. Pedro de la Cueva, Parábolas y exemplos sacados de las costumbres del campo (Bibliothèque National de France [BNF], Collection Pinart, Fonds Américain 70, ca. 1600)
40. Pedro de Feria, Doctrina christiana en lengua castellana y çapoteca (Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1567)
41. Leonardo Levanto's Cathecismo de la doctrina christiana en lengua zapoteca (Mexico: Ediciones Toledo, [1776] 1989)
42. Alonso Martínez, Manual breve y compendioso para empesar a aprender lengua çapoteca (John Carter Brown Library [JCB] Codex Ind. 70, [1633] 1872)
43. Antonio Peñafiel, ed., Gramática zapoteca de autor anónimo (Oaxaca: Ediciones Toledo, 1981)
44. Brook Lillehaugen, The Categorical Status of Body Part Prepositions in Valley Zapotec Languages (Master's thesis, Linguistics Department, UCLA, 2003)
45. Rebecca Long and Sofronio Cruz, Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Coyoacán: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1999)
46. Filemón López, Filemón, and Ronaldo Newberg, La conjugación del verbo zapoteco: zapoteco de Yalálag (Mexico: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1990)
47. and Pamela Munro et al., San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Dictionary (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, 1999)
48. My approach to Feria and Córdova was greatly facilitated by George Aaron Broadwell, "The conjunctions of Colonial and Modern Valley Zapotec: Evidence from Feria (1567)," (Paper delivered at the American Society for Ethnohistory Meetings, Quebec City, 2002)
49. Terrence Kaufman, Proto-Zapotec reconstructions (Manuscript, 1994-2004, 77 pp.)
50. Thomas Smith-Stark, Sergio Bogard and Ausencia López Cruz, Searchable electronic file of Juan de Córdova's Vocabvlario en lengva çapoteca (Word Perfect 8, 7.7 MB, 1993)
51. Thomas Smith-Stark, "La ortografía del Vocabulario de fray Juan de Córdova," (Paper delivered at the III Conferencia de Estudios Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca City, 1998)
52. and idem, "Dioses, sacerdotes, y sacrificio: Una mirada a la religion zapoteca a través del Vocabulario en lengua Çapoteca (1578) de Juan de Córdova," in V. de la Cruz and M. Winter, eds., La religión de los bini gula'sa' (Oaxaca: Fondo Editorial IEEPO, 2001), pp. 89-195
53. APJO, Villa Alta Civil 25, 28r
54. Kevin Terraciano, The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), p. 298
55. Córdova, Vocabulario, 1578, 115v
56. APJO, Villa Alta Criminal 117
57. James Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), p. 252
58. Terraciano, Colonial Mixtec, 2001, p. 301
59. Louise Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature (Albany: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, SUNY-Albany, 2001), p. 11
60. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe, 2001, p. 149
61. See Anne Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages, (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997)
62. which is quoted in Burkhart, Before Guadalupe, 2001, p. 15
63. Juan Bautista Viseo, Sermonario en Lengua mexicana (Mexico: Diego López Daualos, 1606)
64. Juan Pérez Bocanegra, Ritual formulario e institución de curas para administrar a los naturales de este reyno los santos sacramentos (Lima: Jerónimo de Contreras, 1631), pp. 704-706
65. Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose, p. 89
66. Long, Diccionario zapoteco, 1999, p. 299
67. Jane Hill, "The Flower World of Old Uto-Aztecan," Journal of Anthropological Research 48 (1992), pp. 117-144
68. See Miguel León-Portilla, "Cuicatl y Tlahtolli: las formas de expresión en náhuatl," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 16 (1983), pp. 76-77, where he argues that, in Nahuatl poetry, ideas are expressed in a parallel form which is syntactically or semantically parallel, and rhetorical commonplaces are often composed by two terms that refer to a third term in a metaphorical or metonymic fashion - a device that may be termed difrasismo
69. Córdova's Vocabulario, 112r, gives totijaya, a form that may be etymologically related to this verb, which he translates as "hitting with a stick or a whip."
70. APJO, Villa Alta Civil 28, 1r
71. Reyes, Arte, [1704] 1891
72. Burgoa, Geográfica descripción, [1674] 1989, vol. 2, p. 126
73. Peñafiel, Gramática, 1981, p. xxix
74. See Louise Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989)
75. See Fernando Horcasitas, El teatro náhuatl (Mexico: UNAM, 1975)
76. Louise Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996)
77. Barry Sell and Louise Burkhart, Nahuatl Theater. Volume 1. Death and Life in Colonial Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004)
78. Jauss, Aesthetic of Reception, 1982, pp. 19, 23
79. See William F. Hanks, Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance and Context (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999)
80. William B. Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 334, 706
81. Pacheco, Doctrina Christiana, 4r, Goxaccazije laotitza etto gothiogo Xihui Poncio Pilato, "padeció debajo del poder de Poncio Pilato..."
82. Cueva, Parábolas y exemplos, 16v: coxacazijni .