Aztec Dance Along the Ruta de Cortés: A Search for New Ethnic Identities

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE
HISPANOFILA Pub Date : 2015-01-06 DOI:10.1353/hsf.2014.0032
Kathleen Ann Myers
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DUrIng the course of my research on colonial topics during the last three decades, I was repeatedly struck by the eagerness and passion of Mexicans to talk about the conquest and its legacy in Mexico today. I was also struck by Mexico’s rich layering of visual imagery – produced over millennium by multiple ethnic groups and conquests. In 2006, I began exploring a new project based on two working hypotheses: first, that Mexicans of all walks of life can shed light on how the reality and perception of the Spanish conquest informs current traditions, identities, and debates about Mexico’s future; second, that visual imagery from both historical and contemporary sources can add a crucial element to this testimony. Working with a photographer and archival image researcher (Emmy award winner, rich remsberg), we began consulting renowned Mexican scholars in the fields of archeology, ethnography, history and political science; interviewing people on the street, in buses, stores, museums, archeological sites, cafés, and festivals; and photographing churches, markets, ancient monuments, street scenes and locating visual archives. The resulting project, In the Shadow of Cortés: From Veracruz to Mexico City, seeks to transform how traditional disciplines in the humanities have approached modern Mexico by combining oral and visual histories with a focus on the presence of the past in Mexico today.1 From 2006 to 2010, I conducted nearly 100 interviews with Mexicans of all walks of life. Each trip focused on the intersection of place, people, and history in one of three distinct geographical areas along the Ruta de Cortés, the famous route taken by Hernán Cortés and his army on his march from the coast of Veracruz to Tenochtitlan. Each area (Veracruz, Tlaxcala-Cholula, Mexico-Tenochtitlan) has its own set of diverse ethnic, linguistic, cultural and historical characteristics. I asked everyone I interviewed the same four basic questions: What do you think about Aztec dance along the ruta de Cortés 157
阿兹特克人沿着cortsams路跳舞:寻找新的民族身份
在过去三十年对殖民主题的研究过程中,我一再被墨西哥人谈论征服及其对今天墨西哥的影响的渴望和激情所打动。我也被墨西哥丰富的视觉意象所震撼,这些视觉意象是由多个民族和征服者在几千年里创造的。2006年,我开始探索一个基于两个假设的新项目:第一,各行各业的墨西哥人可以阐明西班牙征服的现实和看法如何影响当前的传统、身份和关于墨西哥未来的辩论;其次,来自历史和当代来源的视觉图像可以为这一证词增添至关重要的元素。我们与一位摄影师和档案图像研究员(艾美奖得主rich remsberg)合作,开始咨询考古、民族志、历史和政治学领域的著名墨西哥学者;在大街上、公共汽车上、商店里、博物馆里、考古遗址里、咖啡馆里和节日里采访人们;并拍摄教堂,市场,古迹,街景和定位视觉档案。由此产生的项目,在cort的阴影下:从韦拉克鲁斯到墨西哥城,试图通过将口头和视觉历史结合起来,关注墨西哥今天的过去,来改变传统的人文学科如何与现代墨西哥接触从2006年到2010年,我对各行各业的墨西哥人进行了近100次采访。每一次旅行都集中在科特萨姆斯之路三个不同地理区域之一的地点、人物和历史的交汇处。科特萨姆斯之路是Hernán科特萨姆斯和他的军队从韦拉克鲁斯海岸前往特诺奇蒂特兰的著名路线。每个地区(韦拉克鲁斯、特拉斯卡拉-乔卢拉、墨西哥-特诺奇蒂特兰)都有自己的一套不同的民族、语言、文化和历史特征。我问每一个我采访过的人同样的四个基本问题:你怎么看阿兹特克人沿着cortsams街跳的舞
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HISPANOFILA LITERATURE, ROMANCE-
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期刊介绍: HISPANÓFILA appears three times a year. The journal accepts essays on any literary, linguistic, or cultural topic dealing with the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Articles may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese but cannot exceed 25 type-written pages. Previously published work and work under consideration by other journals should not be submitted.
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