Ordinary things: classifying Nahua religion in colonial Mexico
This article tells the story of Nahua adaptation to colonial religious classifications. Nahua elders informed the Relación de Meztitlán by presenting ritual practices, like the Nahua calendar, in a way that did not challenge the conventional boundaries established by the Christian religion, nor Euro...
| Subtitles: | The Social Order of Things: A Materialist Model for Comparing Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2025
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| In: |
Religion
Year: 2025, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 493-506 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nahua deities
B Nahua calendrics B Relaciones Geográficas B Christian reception |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This article tells the story of Nahua adaptation to colonial religious classifications. Nahua elders informed the Relación de Meztitlán by presenting ritual practices, like the Nahua calendar, in a way that did not challenge the conventional boundaries established by the Christian religion, nor European expectations of what civility looked like. The article describes the Nahua calendar as a transitional phenomenon that mediated the tension between colonial classification and Native practice as a contested process of meaning making and social status. Ultimately, the article argues that Nahua elders disassociated the Nahua calendar from its religious aspects and associated with the colonial category of the ordinary, if only in name, to avoid Christian scrutiny. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2024.2444129 |
