Dissertation Research: Ritual specialists, evangelization, and local socio-religious hierarchies in late colonial

该项目涉及一名来自芝加哥大学的人类学研究生，对墨西哥世纪的宗教从业者进行民族历史研究。 咨询档案在墨西哥以及在西班牙，法国和意大利，学生将开发一个解释模型的后期殖民收购和有关祭祀传说和仪式的口头文本知识的传输。 该研究将通过基于未出版的殖民文献的社会（精英/非精英）和空间（本地/区域/区域间）领域的比较分析，研究1611年至1819年期间纳瓦和萨波特克社区仪式实践的社会转型机制。 这项研究将测试的假设，即社会再生产的纳瓦和Zapotec仪式的做法，在非公共的地方领域影响了当地的基督教邪教和相关的社会宗教等级的出现在世纪初。 还将检验这些习俗是否可能是土著文化对人口日益恢复和融入区域经济和文化领域的反应。 这些数据将来自比较中部和瓦哈卡北方相对一体化的Nahua定居点和相对自治的Zapotec定居点，并对普埃布拉的奎察兰市进行人种学研究。 从这个项目中获得的新知识将促进我们对周边社区如何通过融合土著和外来宗教习俗融入国家等级制度的理解，这是一个今天正在进行的一般过程。

This project involves an anthropology graduate student from the University of Chicago conducting an ethno-historical study of 17th and 18th century religious practitioners in Mexico. Consulting archives in Mexico as well as in Spain, France and Italy, the student will develop an interpretive model of the late colonial acquisition and transmission of knowledge about calendrical lore and ritual oral texts. The study will examine the social transformation mechanisms of ritual practices from 1611 to 1819 in some Nahua and Zapotec communities via a comparative analysis of social (elite/non-elite) and spatial (local/regional/inter-regional) domains based on unpublished colonial documents. The study will test the hypothesis that the social reproduction of Nahua and Zapotec ritual practices in non-public local domains influenced the emergence of local Christian cults and related socio-religious hierarchies in the early 17th century. The possibility that these practices constituted an indigenous cultural response to growing population recovery and to integration into a regional economic and cultural domain will also be tested. The data will be drawn from a comparison between relatively integrated Nahua settlement and relatively autonomous Zapotec settlements in central and northern Oaxaca with ethnographic research in the municipality of Cuetzalan, Puebla. The new knowledge from this project will advance our understanding of how peripheral communities were integrated into a national hierarchy through the blend of indigenous and imported religious customs, a general process ongoing today.