Research Catalog

Title

Indigenous education through dance and ceremony : a Mexica palimpsest / Ernesto "Tlahuitollini" Colín.

Author

Colín, Ernesto

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

xxvi, 251 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This book presents an ethnography of contemporary indigenous education through the spirit practice, dance ceremonies, and cultural diffusion efforts of a Mexica (Aztec) dance circle in the United States. The author uses the metaphor of palimpsest to describe several teaching and learning spaces the group constructs with a combination of ancient and modern materials. Coli;n unpacks the group's organizational leadership, ceremonies, community service, education, and dance practices. Ultimately, dancers reclaim and re-author identity, language, culture, leadership, education, spirituality, and community activism. The book celebrates a dynamic indigenous community and their post-colonial resistance to erasure. "--

Subject

• Religious dance > Mexico > History
• Aztec dance > San Jose
• Dance in education > San Jose
• Folk dancing > Mexico > History
• Aztecs > Social life and customs
• Aztecs > Antiquities
• Aztecs > Rites and ceremonies
• EDUCATION / Multicultural Education
• EDUCATION / Research
• EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. A Danza Landscape2. Calpulli (An Alliance of Houses)3. Tequio (Community Work)4. Tlacahuapahualiztli (The Art of Educating a Person)5. Cargos6. Macehualiztli (The Art of Deserving)7. Decolonial Pedagogy8. Re-inscribing the Self9. A Modern Mexica Palimpsest.

ISBN

• 9781137357984
• 1137357983

LCCN

^^2014011655

OCLC

881655868

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library