The Matachines Dance (eBook)

A Ritual Dance of the Indian Pueblos and Mexicano/Hispano Communities

Sylvia Rodriguez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
258 Seiten
Sunstone Press (Verlag)
978-1-61139-233-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Rio Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the American Southwest. 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. In the Upper Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, the Matachines is the only ritual dance performed in both Indian Pueblos and Hispano communities. There, the dance involves two lines of masked dancers, a young girl in white and her crowned, masked, male partner, a bull, and two clowns. Accompanied usually by violin and guitar, these characters enact a choreographic drama that symbolizes encounter, struggle, and transformation-resolution. In this classic, prize-winning ethnographic study, anthropologist and native New Mexican Sylvia Rodriguez compares Indian Pueblo and Hispano Matachines dance performance traditions to discover what they share, how they differ, what they reveal about specific communities, and what they mean to those who continue to perform them with devotion and skill.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abuela • Abuelo • alan oppenheimer • Alcalde • alfonso ortiz • Amalgamation • American Indian • americanization • Apache • arroyo seco • azteca • bernalillo • blue lake case • border regional library association southwest book award • brenda romero • burlesque • chicago folklore prize • chile con candy • choreography • christianization • Christmas • christmas eve • Clown • corner dancers • danzantes • deer dance • dia de guadalupe • dierdre sklar • Don Diego de Vargas • don fernando de taos • el monarca • el rancho • el torito • El Toro • Ethnic boundaries • Ethnic Relations • ethnocultural activism • flavia champe • Folk Drama • gerald nailor • gertrude kurath • guaje • Hispano • holy child parish • holy trinity parish • indian pueblo cultural center • Jemez Pueblo • John Robb • la corona • la cruz • la despedida • La Malinche • Land claim • land grant • Las Cruces • los abuelos • luminaria • mabel dodge luhan • matachines • Matachines dance • mayordomo • maypole • Mestizaje • mission of san lorenzo • Montezuma • New Year's Day • Palma • Pantomime • penitente • perejundia • picuris pueblo • pueblo dance • pueblo indian • Pueblo Indians • pueblo land claim • Pueblo Revolt • Religious Conversion • Rio Grande • Rio Grande Valley • ritual dance • Saint Anthony • San Antonio • San Antonito • Sandia Pueblo • san ildefonso • san juan pueblo • San Lorenzo • Taos Pueblo • Tewa • tiwa • tortugas • Virgin of Guadalupe • water issues
• ISBN-10: 1-61139-233-0 / 1611392330
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61139-233-3 / 9781611392333