Taken from the lips : gender and eros in Mesoamerican religions /

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This volume deals with the world of women in Mesoamerica, discussing particularly the religious and ritual aspects of gender. As its sources, it uses colonial documents of the contact period with European cultures, testimonies of the subjugated indigenous during the colonial period, as well as conte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marcos, Sylvia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Religion in the Americas series ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Indians of Mexico > Religion.
Indians of Mexico > Rites and ceremonies.
Indian women > Mexico > Historiography.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > Mexico.
Sex role > Mexico.
Peuples autochtones > Mexique > Religion.
Peuples autochtones > Mexique > Rites et cérémonies.
Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Mexique > Historiographie.
Corps humain > Aspect symbolique > Mexique.
Rôle selon le sexe > Mexique.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Human body > Symbolic aspects
Indians of Mexico > Religion
Indians of Mexico > Rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
Sex role
Sekseverschillen.
Godsdiensten.
Mexico > Social life and customs.
Mexico > Religious life and customs.
Mexique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Mexique > Vie religieuse.
Mexico
Midden-Amerika.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Curing and Cosmology
  • Duality, Fluidity, and Equilibrium
  • The Sacred Earth of the Nahuas
  • Gender and Healing Rituals
  • Fusion with the Sacred
  • Corporeality, Religious Metaphor, and Narrative
  • Indigenous Eroticism and Colonial Morality
  • Scattering of Jades
  • Beyond Mesoamerica
  • Epilogue.

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