Indigenous Education through Dance and Ceremony [electronic resource] : A Mexica Palimpsest /
Colín, E.author.
In the first book on Aztec dance in the United States, Ernesto Colín combines cultural anthropology, educational theory, and postcolonial theory to create an innovative, interdisciplinary, long-term ethnography of an Aztec dance circle and makes a case for the use of the metaphor of palimpsest as an ethnographic research tool.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword: Historically Embodied Learning; Author's Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Danza Landscape; 2 Calpulli (An Alliance of Houses); 3 Tequio (Community Work); 4 Tlacahuapahualiztli (The Art of Educating a Person); 5 Cargos; 6 Macehualiztli (The Art of Deserving); 7 Decolonial Pedagogy; 8 Reinscribing the Self; 9 A Modern Mexica Palimpsest; Appendix A The Mandate of the Huey Tlahtocan(Great Council) of 1519; Appendix B Palimpsest in Academic Fields; Appendix C Gathering Materials, Experiences, and Interpretations
Appendix D Content Summary: Calpulli Tonalehqueh Ensayo January 2008Appendix E Content Summary: "The Myth of Human Sacrifice" by Ocelocoatl; Appendix F Basic Structure of the Prayer Used to Open and Close a Calpulli Tonalehqueh Ensayo or Formal Ceremony; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references.
In the first book on Aztec dance in the United States, Ernesto Colín combines cultural anthropology, educational theory, and postcolonial theory to create an innovative, interdisciplinary, long-term ethnography of an Aztec dance circle and makes a case for the use of the metaphor of palimpsest as an ethnographic research tool.
Ethnography.
Education—History.
International education .
Comparative education.
Education.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Anthropology.
Ethnography.
History of Education.
International and Comparative Education.
Education, general.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Anthropology.