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100 1 $aScolieri, Paul A.
245 10 $aDancing the new world :$bAztecs, Spaniards, and the choreography of conquest /$cPaul A. Scolieri.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aAustin :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c2013.
300 $axii, 205 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c29 cm
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500 $aBased on the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University, 2003.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"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 World 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."--Publisher's website.
505 0 $aOn the Areíto: Discovering Dance in the New World -- Unfaithful Imitation: Friar Toribio de Benavente "Motolinía" and the "Counterfeit" Histories of Dance -- The Sacrifices of Representation: Dance in the Writings of Friar Bernardino de Sahagún -- Dances of Death: The Massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl -- The Mystery of Movement: Dancing in Colonial New Spain -- Conclusion.
650 0 $aAztec dance.
650 0 $aIndian dance$zMexico.
650 0 $aDance$xAnthropological aspects$zMexico.
650 0 $aAztecs$xFirst contact with Europeans.
651 0 $aMexico$xHistory$ySpanish colony, 1540-1810.
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