The Matachines Dance: A Ritual Dance of the Indian Pueblos and Mexicano/Hispano Communities Paperback - 2009
by Sylvia Rodriguez
In this book, Rodriguez explores the colorful, complex, and often enigmatic Matachines dance as it is performed today. In the Upper Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, the Matachines is the only ritual dance performed in both Indian Pueblos and Hispano communities.
From the rear cover
The Matachines Dance - "the beautiful dance of subjugation", as Sylvia Rodriguez calls it - derives from a genre of medieval European folk dramas symbolizing conflict between Christians and Moors. Spaniards brought it to the Americas as a vehicle for Christianizing the Indians. In this book, Rodriguez explores the colorful, complex, and often enigmatic Matachines dance as it is performed today by Pueblo Indians and Hispanos in New Mexico. Previous studies of the Matachines dance dealt mainly with its origins, distribution, and descriptive details. Rodriguez's work instead focuses on the larger cultural, ecological, historical, and political-economic setting within which each community's performance is organized. She analyzes observed behavior, incorporates native explanation, and interprets the dance's symbols in attempting to discover what the dance means to those who perform it and what its performance reveals about the people who do it. For both Indians and Hispanos in New Mexico, the dance is not merely an archaic survival but an ongoing way of coping with and commenting on the history of ethnic domination as it continues to unfold in the upper Rio Grande valley.
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- Title The Matachines Dance: A Ritual Dance of the Indian Pueblos and Mexicano/Hispano Communities
- Author Sylvia Rodriguez
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 258
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Sunstone Press
- Date 2009-04-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780865346345 / 0865346348
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.58 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.47 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Anthropological
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects New Mexico - Ethnic relations, Matachines (Dance)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009010130
- Dewey Decimal Code 793.319
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 94
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