III Coloquio de Historia de la Religión en Mesoamérica y Areas Afines
By: Barbro Dahlgren Jordan, compiladora.
Contributors: Dahlgren de Jordán, Barbro.
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
Published: 1993
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Religion -- Congresses.; Indian mythology -- Mexico -- Congresses.
Other titles: Tercer Coloquio de Historia de la Religión en Mesoamérica y Areas Afines; 3. Coloquio de Historia de la Religión en Mesoamérica y Areas Afines
Description: "Anthology of 29 brief articles addressed to the organizing theme of the book and originating in a scholarly gathering in Mexico City in 1990. Articles of interest to ethnohistorians of Mesoamerica include:  a short study of confession among the Mexica; a study of the symbolism of conches in prehispanic central Mesoamerica; Barba de Piña Chan's analysis of Mexica beliefs connected with childbirth and death in childbirth; a thoughtful consideration of evangelical efforts to instruct the indigenous people of central Mexico about salvation by impressing them with images of tormented sinners; an analysis of the use of medicinal plants by Catholic missionaries in the northwest, as well as commercial trade in these commodities; Quezada's study of colonial curanderos and their manipulation of Christian saints and the devil; and a comparison between prehispanic and colonial indigenous beliefs in the relationship between illness and sexual deviance and similar beliefs in modern Pachiquitla, Hidalgo"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Colloquium held Mexico City, Nov. 1990.