TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marcos,Sylvia
TI  - Taken from the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789047408680
AV  - F1219.3.R38 
U1  - 299.7/92 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Indian women
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Indians of Mexico
KW  - Religion
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This volume deals with the world of women in Mesoamerica, discussing particularly the religious and ritual aspects of gender. As its sources, it uses colonial documents of the contact period with European cultures, testimonies of the subjugated indigenous during the colonial period , as well as contemporary ethnographic studies The book starts with an analysis of healing rituals in contemporary Mexico , focusing on the "refunctionalization" of ancient beliefs and practices.From there it moves spiral-like between pre-hispanic and colonial pasts and diverse presents. The section on "orality" is a methodological proposal for the study of indigenous religious traditions.The book is illustrated with reproductions of ancient codices
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047408680
ER  -