THE PASSION ACCORDING TO THE WOODEN DRUM: THE CHRISTIAN APPROPRIATION OF A ZAPOTEC RITUAL GENRE IN NEW SPAIN*

From: The Americas | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Sometime after the summer of 1703, a strange traveler journeyed to several Zapotec-speaking communities nestled in the rugged geography of Villa Alta-an alcaldia mayor northeast of Oaxaca City in New Spain. He wore a pectoral ornament around his neck-a gift from the Benedictine friar Ángel Maldonado, a newly appointed bishop who had arrived in Oaxaca in July 1702-and was received throughout Villa Alta with "great noise and expressions of joy."1 Upon his arrival in each locality, he would gather the townspeople and proclaim an offer of amnesty from the bishop: in exchange for ...

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