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Dancing Aztecs

Author : Donald E Westlake
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
ISBN 13 : 9049986579
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Aztecs written by Donald E Westlake and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen copies of a famous Aztec statue arrive in New York, men will die to find out which one is the real thing A small South American republic has decided to capitalize on its national symbol: a prized gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest. The president asks a sculptor to make sixteen copies of it for sale abroad. The sculptor replaces the original with one of his fakes, and ships the real one to New York City for an under-the-table sale to a museum. The statues travel to America spread out among five crates, labeled to ensure that delivery goes as planned. But it doesn’t work. Asked to pick up the crate marked “E” at the airport, delivery man Jerry Manelli, confused by his client’s Spanish accent, takes crate “A” instead. The statue disappears into the city, leading him on a baffling chase, which—if he comes up with the wrong Aztec—could cost him his life.

Dancing Aztecs

Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780449233955
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Aztecs written by Donald E. Westlake and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1977-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing the New World

Author : Paul A. Scolieri
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292744927
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Dancing the New World written by Paul A. Scolieri and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014 Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014 de la Torre Bueno® Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013 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.

Exploring the Aztecs

Author : John Malam
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 9780237525989
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Aztecs written by John Malam and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remains to be Seen is a fascinating series which looks at the past through the archeological evidence that remains today. Exploring the Aztecs discusses who the Aztecs were, and how their ancient civilisation in Mexico developed. Who was Moctezuma, and what was it like to live in Tenochititian, the Aztec capital city built on a lake? The reader is taken on a guided tour of the Aztec world, exploring their capital city, and discovering a world of emperors, nobles, priests, warriors, commoners and slaves who belonged to one of the greatest civilizations in the Americas.

The Aztecs

Author : Dirk R. Van Tuerenhout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576079244
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs written by Dirk R. Van Tuerenhout and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time? This volume looks at the essential elements in the Aztecs' rise, fall, and enduring influence. A wealth of new archaeological findings and interpretations has sparked a richer understanding of the Aztecs, dispelling many myths. The Aztecs: New Perspectives looks at evidence from ancient, colonial, and modern times to present a contemporary, well-rounded portrait of this Mesoamerican culture. Like no other volume, it examines daily Aztec life both at, and away from, the seats of power, revealing the Aztecs to be accomplished farmers, astronomers, mathematicians, and poets—as well as ruthless warriors and tireless builders of empire. The Aztecs ranges from the mysterious origins of the Aztlan tribe to the glory years of empire and ultimate defeat. But the story doesn't end there. To present the most complete picture possible, the author goes to the most fascinating source available—the living ancestors who keep the Aztec language and many aspects of their ancient worldview alive. There is no better volume for exploring the realities of Aztec life as it was, and as it influences our world today.

Dancing Throughout Mexican History (1325-1910)

Author : Sanjuanita Martínez-Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692099667
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Throughout Mexican History (1325-1910) written by Sanjuanita Martínez-Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must read for anyone who would like to learn more about Dance in Mexican History. It is an especially important reference for teachers of Mexican Folkloric Dance who would like to incorporate Mexican Dance History into their teachings. Using the time frame of 1325-1910, Martínez-Hunter skillfully gives a brief overview of Mexican history accompanied by an analysis of the dances during this period. She begins by diving into accounts of the Aztec dances in Pre-Hispanic Mexico before and after the conquest. Then, she describes the Dance Dramas that arose when the Spanish began to Christianize the Indigenous people. During the Spanish colonization, Martínez-Hunter notes the ways in which theatrical dances were imported from Europe to Mexico; the influences of the court dances including the pavane, sarabande, and the chaconne which began in the New World and traveled to Europe; as well as the Indigenous, mestizo, Chilean, and African influences on the dances of Mexico. Then, covering the dances during the Independence of Mexico (1810-1821) until the beginnings of the Mexican Revolutionary War (1910-1920), Martínez-Hunter juxtaposes the popularity of the European ballroom dances with the dances of the peasant people known as jarabes and sones. To honor the life's work of Martínez-Hunter all the photographs of the jarabes and sones included in this book feature her dancers of the University of Texas at Austin Ballet Folklorico from the 1970s. They document her many contributions to Dance when she was a faculty member at this institution.

Dancing Mestizo Modernisms

Author : Jose Luis Reynoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197622550
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Mestizo Modernisms written by Jose Luis Reynoso and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social hierarchies stemming from colonial Mexico (1521-1821). Relying on extensive archival research, choreography as an analytical methodology, and theories of race, dance, and performance studies, author Jose Reynoso examines how dance and other forms of embodiment participated in Mexico's formation after the Mexican War of Independence (1821-1876), the Porfirian dictatorship (1876-1911), and postrevolutionary Mexico (1919-1940). In so doing, the book analyzes how underlying colonial logics continued to influence relationships amongst dancers, other artists, government officials, critics, and audiences of different backgrounds as they refashioned their racial, social, cultural, and national identities. The book proposes and develops two main concepts that explore these mutually formative interactions among such diverse people: embodied mestizo modernisms and transnational nationalisms. 'Embodied mestizo modernisms' refers to combinations of indigenous, folkloric, ballet, and modern dance practices in works choreographed by national and international dancers with different racial and social backgrounds. The book contends that these mestizo modernist dance practices challenged assumptions about racial neutrality with which whiteness historically established its ostensible supremacy in constructing Mexico's 'transnational nationalisms'. This argument holds that notions of the nation-state and national identities are not produced exclusively by a nation's natives but also by historical transnational forces and (dancing) bodies whose influences shape local politics, economic interests, and artistic practices.

Empire of the Aztecs

Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604131497
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Aztecs written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Empire of the Aztecs" opens with a summary of the rise and fall of the empire, placing it within the context of its time period and geographical location. The second half of this book explores the daily lives of the Aztec people, focusing on their social customs, religious practices, family and community structure, and cultural accomplishments.

Flower, Song, Dance

Author : David Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985255282
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Flower, Song, Dance written by David Bowles and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-Colombian Mexico, song and dance were vital components of daily life. However, all that is left of this vast tradition of lyrical verse are fewer than 200 poems, most contained in three codices written just after the Spanish conquest. In this new translation, David Bowles employs the tools of English verse to craft accessible, powerful versions of selected songs from the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, striking a balance between the features of the original performance and the expectations of modern readers of poetry. With full-color illustrations, a thorough glossary and insightful introduction, 'Flower, Song, Dance' brings a neglected literary tradition to life for the 21st-century.

Aztec Codices

Author : Lori Boornazian Diel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Aztec Codices written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life. This book focuses on two main areas: Aztec history and Aztec culture. Early chapters deal with Aztec history—the first providing a visual record of the story of the Aztec migration and search for their destined homeland of Tenochtitlan, and the second exploring how the Aztecs built their empire. Later chapters explain life in the Aztec world, focusing on Aztec conceptions of time and religion, the Aztec economy, the life cycle, and daily life. The book ends with an account of the fall of the empire, as illustrated by Aztec artists. With sections concerning a wide variety of topics—from the Aztec pantheon to war, agriculture, childhood, marriage, diet, justice, the arts, and sports, among many others—readers will gain an expansive understanding of life in the Aztec world.

Music in Aztec and Inca Territory

Author : Robert M. Stevenson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520317238
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Music in Aztec and Inca Territory written by Robert M. Stevenson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Music in Aztec & Inca Territory

Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in Aztec & Inca Territory written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Of Aztecs And Conquistadors

Author : Juan Pablo Jalisco
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Of Aztecs And Conquistadors written by Juan Pablo Jalisco and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Of Aztecs and Conquistadors' is the definitive collection of Juan Pablo Jalisco's poetry. The selection featured within these pages will carry the reader on a journey not only through the vast beauty of the land that is Mexico, but also serves as a journey through the ages that have helped to shape this at times wild and rugged, but always romantic and awesomely beautiful country and its people.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1682 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aztecs, Moors, and Christians

Author : Max Harris
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779291
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Aztecs, Moors, and Christians written by Max Harris and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The festival tradition officially celebrates the triumph of Spanish Catholicism over its enemies, yet this does not explain its persistence for more than five hundred years nor its widespread diffusion. In this insightful book, Max Harris seeks to understand Mexicans' "puzzling and enduring passion" for festivals of moros y cristianos. He begins by tracing the performances' roots in medieval Spain and showing how they came to be superimposed on the mock battles that had been a part of pre-contact Aztec calendar rituals. Then using James Scott's distinction between "public" and "hidden transcripts," he reveals how, in the hands of folk and indigenous performers, these spectacles of conquest became prophecies of the eventual reconquest of Mexico by the defeated Aztec peoples. Even today, as lively descriptions of current festivals make plain, they remain a remarkably sophisticated vehicle for the communal expression of dissent.

Carrying the Word

Author : Susanna Rostas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607321386
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Carrying the Word written by Susanna Rostas and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2009 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern innovation in distinctive ways even within Mexican culture, which is rife with ritual dances. The Concheros blend Catholic and indigenous traditions in their performances, but are not governed by a predetermined set of beliefs; rather they are bound together by long standing interpersonal connections framed by the discipline of their tradition. The Concheros manifest their spirituality by means of the dance. Rostas traces how they construct their identity and beliefs, both individual and communal, by its means. The book offers new insights into the experience of dancing as a Conchero while also exploring their history, organization and practices. Carrying the Word provides a new way for audiences to understand the Conchero's dance tradition, and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Mesoamerica. Those studying identity, religion, and tradition will find this social-anthropological work particularly enlightening.

Celebrating Latino Folklore [3 volumes]

Author : Maria Herrera-Sobek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313343403
Total Pages : 1438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Latino Folklore [3 volumes] written by Maria Herrera-Sobek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino folklore comprises a kaleidoscope of cultural traditions. This compelling three-volume work showcases its richness, complexity, and beauty. Latino folklore is a fun and fascinating subject to many Americans, regardless of ethnicity. Interest in—and celebration of—Latin traditions such as Día de los Muertos in the United States is becoming more common outside of Latino populations. Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions provides a broad and comprehensive collection of descriptive information regarding all the genres of Latino folklore in the United States, covering the traditions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Mexico, Spain, or Latin America. The encyclopedia surveys all manner of topics and subject matter related to Latino folklore, covering the oral traditions and cultural heritage of Latin Americans from riddles and dance to food and clothing. It covers the folklore of 21 Latin American countries as these traditions have been transmitted to the United States, documenting how cultures interweave to enrich each other and create a unique tapestry within the melting pot of the United States.