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Title
Words & worlds turned around
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Words and worlds turned around
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Tavárez, David Eduardo (Editor)
Subject
Catholic Church--Latin America--History. (LCSH)
Latin America--History--To 1830 (LCSH)
Syncretism (Religion)--Latin America (LCSH)
Christianity and other religions (LCSH)
Indians of South America--Religion (LCSH)
Indians of Mexico--Religion (LCSH)
Indigenous peoples--Latin America--Languages (LCSH)
Spanish language--Religious aspects (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Maps
Geographic Coverage
Latin America
Classification
LCC: F1219.3.R38 W67 2017
DDC: 980/.01 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"A sophisticated, state-of-the-art approach to the embrace of Christianity by indigenous societies, that reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas. Surveying how Christian messages were rendered in indigenous languages, the book explores what was gained, transformed, or left behind in these translations"--Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Performing the Zaachila word : the Dominican invention of Zapotec Christianity / David Tavárez
Towards a deconstruction of the notion of Nahua "confession" / Julia Madajczak
Precontact indigenous concepts in Christian translations : the terminology of sin and confession in early colonial Quechua texts / Gregory Haimovich
A sixteenth-century priest's field notes among the highland Maya : Proto-theologia as vade mecum / Garry Sparks and Frauke Sachse
International collaborations in translation : the European promise of militant Christianity for the Tupinamba of Portuguese America, 1550s-1613 / M. Kittiya Lee
The Nahua story of Judas : indigenous agency and loci of meaning / Justyna Olko
A Nahua Christian talks back : Fabián de Aquino's antichrist dramas as autoethnography / Ben Leeming
Sin, shame, and sexuality : Franciscan obsessions and Maya humor in the Calepino de Motul Dictionary, 1573-1588 / John F. Chuchiak, IV
To make Christianity fit : the process of Christianization from an Andean perspective / Claudia Brosseder
Predictions and portents of doomsday in European, Nahuatl, and Maya texts / Mark Z. Christensen
The value of el costumbre and Christianity in the discourse of Nahua : catechists from the Huasteca region in Veracruz, Mexico / Abelardo de la Cruz.
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Words & worlds turned around
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Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: full
Identified By: bf:Local, 19598529
Change Date: 2018-12-28T12:20:24
Creation Date: 2017-04-12
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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