ISBN:
9789088900082
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (163 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Visiting the Calvario at Mitla, Oaxaca : a critical look at the continuity of a religious practice
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In the centre of the Mexican town of Mitla stands a run-down chapel on an overgrown pre-colonial pyramid. The chapel, housing three crosses, is the town's Calvario, the local representation of the hill on which Christ died. Although buses full of tourists on their way to Chiapas or on daytrips from Oaxaca City swarm the town every day almost none of them ever visit the Calvario. Instead they stick to the tourist zone to marvel at the famous mosaic friezes of the pre-colonial temples and shop for traditional souvenirs in the tourist market. If they would climb the steep steps to the chapel they
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Objectives and Methods; 1.1 Research Question; 1.2 Methodology; 1.2.1 Fieldwork; 1.2.2 Written Sources; 1.3 The Chapters; 2 Theoretical Considerations; 2.1 Cultural Continuity; 2.2 Syncretism; 2.3 Material religion; 2.4 Rituals; 2.5 Religion; 2.6 The approach; 3 History of Mitla as a ritual centre; 3.1 Early Colonial Sources; 3.1.1 Burgoa's Geográfica descripción; 3.1.2 The Relaciones Geográficas of 1580; 3.1.3 De Córdova's Vocabvlario en Lengua Çapoteca; 3.1.4 Balsalobre's Idolatría y Superstición; 3.1.5 The Villa Alta Confessions; 3.1.6 Secondary Sources
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3.1.7 The Murals3.2 Early Explorers and Ethnographers; 3.2.1 The explorers; 3.2.2 The early ethnographers about the afterlife; 3.2.3 Going to the Town of the Souls; 3.2.4 The nature of souls; 3.2.5 All Souls; 3.2.6 The ancients and other extrahuman forces; 3.3 The present situation; 3.3.1 The ancients and the journey after death; 3.3.2 All Souls; 3.3.3 Mitleños about the Place of the Dead; 3.3.4 Pilgrims about the Place of the Dead; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Continuity of the Calvario as a rituallocation; 4.1 Early Sources; 4.1.1 The Calvario and its Predecessors
Description / Table of Contents:
4.1.2 A Backdoor to Hell in the Ruins4.2 Early ethnographers; 4.2.1 The Calvario as a Place to Curse; 4.2.2 The Churchyard and the Ruins; 4.2.3 A Hidden Entrance in the Church; 4.2.4 Other Destinations on New Year's Eve; 4.2.5 "Now we are Civilized"; 4.3 Recent ethnographers; 4.3.1 Inviting the Souls at the Calvario; 4.3.2 Pilgrims about the Calvario; 4.3.3 Mitleños about the Calvario; 4.3.4 The ruins and the churchyard; 4.3.5 The church and the souls; 4.3.6 The Cave with the Big Mouth; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 Continuity of the offerings for the dead
Description / Table of Contents:
5.1 Late Post classic and Early Colonial Sources5.1.1 Burgoa on rituals; 5.1.2 Codices and Counted Bundles; 5.1.3 Archaeological and Historical Sources; 5.2 Early Ethnographers; 5.2.1 The helpful dead; 5.2.2 Parsons on rituals; 5.3 Present day sources; 5.3.1 Present day ethnographers; 5.3.2 The offerings explained; 5.4 Conclusion; Conclusions and Discussion; References
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