Zemi, teotl, huaca: reconsidering materiality through three emic concepts in the New World
During Early Modern history, the representations of New World’s indigenous beliefs and practices were a process of assimilation within the Western concept of religion. This article assesses three indigenous emic concepts observed by missionaries: zemi, teotl and huaca. First, it analyses the Account...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
2022
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Religion
Année: 2022, Volume: 52, Numéro: 1, Pages: 48-66 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Pané, Ramón, Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios
/ Codex Florentinus
/ Acosta, José de 1539-1600, Historia natural y moral de las Indias
/ Amerika
/ Savoir local
/ Matérialité
/ Catégorie
/ Conceptualisation
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AA Sciences des religions AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse BB Religions traditionnelles ou tribales BR Religions amérindiennes KBR Amérique Latine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
huaca
B Agency B teotl B Materiality B Idolatry B zemi |
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| Résumé: | During Early Modern history, the representations of New World’s indigenous beliefs and practices were a process of assimilation within the Western concept of religion. This article assesses three indigenous emic concepts observed by missionaries: zemi, teotl and huaca. First, it analyses the Account of the Antiquities of the Indians by Ramón Pané, sent by Christopher Columbus to carry out ‘fieldwork’ among the Taíno Indians. Then, it focuses on how in New Spain Bernardino de Sahagún confronted another emic concept—teotl—and incorporated it into his Florentine Codex. Finally, it focuses on how José de Acosta, in his Natural and Moral History of the Indies, adapted a theory of idolatry assimilating Andean huacas as ‘particular things’. From the comparison of these emic categories will emerge a sort of indigenous theory of materiality that could be valuable to religious studies when considering ‘other’ relational forms with extra-human beings. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2021.2011081 |