Yet, as Viviana Diaz Balsera argues in Guardians of Idolatry, the selection process for the incantations recorded in the Treatise reflects two sites of agency: Ruiz de Alarcon's desire to present the most flagrant examples of Nahua ""demonic"" practices, and Nahua efforts to share benign nahualtocaitl in order to preserve their preconquest traditions while negotiating with colonial Christian hegemony.Guardians of Idolatry offers readers a rare, in-depth look at the nahualtocaitl and the native cosmogonies, beliefs, and medical practices they reveal. Today this work is recognized as one of the most significant firsthand records of indigenous religious practices in postconquest Mexico. The bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish Treatise collected diverse incantations, or nahualtocaitl, used to conjure Mesoamerican deities for daily sustenance and medical activities. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In 1629, Catholic priest Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon produced the Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live among the Indians Native to This New Spain to aid the church in its abolishment of native Nahua religious practices. Through close reading of four incantations - for safe travel, maguey sap harvesting, bow-and-arrow deer hunting, and divination through maize kernels - Diaz Balsera shows the nuances of a Nahua spiritual world. The Nile on eBay Guardians of Idolatry by Viviana Diaz Balsera Offers readers a rare, in-depth look at the nahualtocaitl and the native cosmogonies, beliefs, and medical practices they reveal. Item: 143555770409 Guardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon's T.
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