Ritual imports
Claire Sponsler · 2004
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"Ritual Imports is a cultural history of European performance traditions in the New World, from the sixteenth century to the present. Claire Sponsler examines the role of survivals and adaptations of medieval drama in shaping American culture from colonization through nation building and on to today's multicultural society." "Drawing on theories of cultural appropriation, Ritual Imports makes an important contribution to medieval and American studies as well as to cultural studies and the history of theater."--Jacket.
First sentence: The history of the matachines dance begins with the Spanish conquest of the Pueblo Indians in 1540 and the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado into New Mexico, although the fate of the Pueblos had arguably already been sealedand many of the conditions for the implanting of the matachines dance already established when Cortés vanquished the Aztecs some twenty years earlier.
Book details
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN
- 9780801442957
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