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Product Identifiers
PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-100271083328
ISBN-139780271083322
eBay Product ID (ePID)13038293190
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
Publication NameIdolizing Mary : Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChristianity / Catholic, Subjects & Themes / Religious, History / Baroque & Rococo, History / Renaissance
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorAmara Solari
Subject AreaArt, Religion
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight34.5 Oz
Item Length10.2 in
Item Width7.3 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-007014
Reviews"Solari's interdisciplinary approach and broad base of source material--from camarín artwork to Maya historical records and court cases--is commendable in balancing the dominant Spanish perspective of the period." --Alaina Keller Religious Studies Review, "In this highly readable book, Solari sets the Virgin Mary within the firmament of the Maya sacred cosmos. As epidemics ravaged the peoples of colonial Yucatan, statues of Mary came forward to absorb evil afflictions. Mary borrowed this capacity, as Solari makes clear, from the very Maya deity images that were dismissed as "idols" by Catholic evangelizers. Offering a Maya ideology of images, Solari's book adds to the growing decolonizing project of current art histories." -Barbara E. Mundy, coauthor of Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820, "In this highly readable book, Solari sets the Virgin Mary within the firmament of the Maya sacred cosmos. As epidemics ravaged the peoples of colonial Yucatan, statues of Mary came forward to absorb evil afflictions. Mary borrowed this capacity, as Solari makes clear, from the very Maya deity images that were dismissed as 'idols' by Catholic evangelizers. Offering a Maya ideology of images, Solari's book adds to the growing decolonizing project of current art histories." --Barbara E. Mundy, author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City, "A fascinating analysis of the Virgen de Itzmal that uses skills and methodologies from a wide variety of disciplines. Solari's art-historical methodology is sound and augmented through the use of ethnohistorical analysis, religious studies, and other complementary approaches. Her use of native-language sources places this study among a limited number of others grounded in ethnohistorical principles. This book demonstrates that the image of the Virgin of Itzmal is not a Pre-Columbian goddess in new clothes with a new name but rather represents a new deity that manifests all of the complexity of the colonial environment, as native peoples grappled with the cultural onslaught of Spanish missionary activity." --John F. Schwaller, author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America, "A fascinating analysis of the Virgen de Itzmal that uses skills and methodologies from a wide variety of disciplines. Solari's art-historical methodology is sound and augmented through the use of ethnohistorical analysis, religious studies, and other complementary approaches. Her use of native-language sources places this study among a limited number of others grounded in ethnohistorical principles. This book demonstrates that the image of the Virgin of Itzmal is not a Pre-Columbian goddess in new clothes with a new name but rather represents a new deity that manifests all of the complexity of the colonial environment, as native peoples grappled with the cultural onslaught of Spanish missionary activity." --John F. Schwaller,author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America, "Solari's interdisciplinary approach and broad base of source material--from camarín artwork to Maya historical records and court cases--is commendable in balancing the dominant Spanish perspective of the period." --Alaina Keller, Religious Studies Review, "In this highly readable book, Solari sets the Virgin Mary within the firmament of the Maya sacred cosmos. As epidemics ravaged the peoples of colonial Yucatan, statues of Mary came forward to absorb evil afflictions. Mary borrowed this capacity, as Solari makes clear, from the very Maya deity images that were dismissed as 'idols' by Catholic evangelizers. Offering a Maya ideology of images, Solari's book adds to the growing decolonizing project of current art histories." --Barbara E. Mundy,author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City, "In this highly readable book, Solari sets the Virgin Mary within the firmament of the Maya sacred cosmos. As epidemics ravaged the peoples of colonial Yucatan, statues of Mary came forward to absorb evil afflictions. Mary borrowed this capacity, as Solari makes clear, from the very Maya deity images that were dismissed as 'idols' by Catholic evangelizers. Offering a Maya ideology of images, Solari's book adds to the growing decolonizing project of current art histories." -Barbara E. Mundy, author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City, "In this highly readable book, Solari sets the Virgin Mary within the firmament of the Maya sacred cosmos. As epidemics ravaged the peoples of colonial Yucatan, statues of Mary came forward to absorb evil afflictions. Mary borrowed this capacity, as Solari makes clear, from the very Maya deity images that were dismissed as 'idols' by Catholic evangelizers. Offering a Maya ideology of images, Solari's book adds to the growing decolonizing project of current art histories." -Barbara E. Mundy, coauthor of Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820, "A fascinating analysis of the Virgen de Itzmal that uses skills and methodologies from a wide variety of disciplines. Solari's art-historical methodology is sound and augmented through the use of ethnohistorical analysis, religious studies, and other complementary approaches. Her use of native-language sources places this study among a limited number of others grounded in ethnohistorical principles. This book demonstrates that the image of the Virgin of Itzmal is not a Pre-Columbian goddess in new clothes with a new name but rather represents a new deity that manifests all of the complexity of the colonial environment, as native peoples grappled with the cultural onslaught of Spanish missionary activity." -John F. Schwaller, author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America, "A fascinating analysis of the Virgen de Itzmal that uses skills and methodologies from a wide variety of disciplines. Solari's art-historical methodology is sound and augmented through the use of ethnohistorical analysis, religious studies, and other complementary approaches. Her use of native language sources places this study among a limited number of others, grounded in ethnohistorical principles. This book demonstrates that the image of the Virgin of Itzmal is not a Pre-Columbian goddess in new clothes with a new name but rather represents a new deity that manifests all of the complexity of the colonial environment, as native peoples grappled with the cultural onslaught of Spanish missionary activity." -John F. Schwaller, author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America
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SynopsisIn the summer of 1648, yellow fever appeared for the first time on the Yucatán Peninsula, claiming the lives of roughly one-third of the population. To combat this epidemic, Spanish colonial authorities carried a miracle-working Marian icon in procession from Itzmal to the capital city of Mérida and back again as a means of invoking divine intercession. Idolizing Mary uses this event and this icon to open a discussion about the early and profound indigenous veneration of the Virgin Mary. Amara Solari argues that particular Marian icons, such as the Virgin of Itzmal, embodied an ideal suite of precontact numinous qualities, which Maya neophytes reframed for their community's religious needs. Examining prints, paintings, and early modern writings about the Virgin of Itzmal, Solari takes up various topics that contributed to the formation of Yucatán Catholicism--such as indigenous Maya notions of sacrality, ritual purity, and the formal qualities of offering vessels--and demonstrates how these aligned with the Virgin of Itzmal in such a way that the icon came to be viewed by the native populations as a deity of a new world order. Thoroughly researched and convincingly argued, Idolizing Mary will be welcomed by scholars and students interested in religious transformation and Marian devotion in colonial Spanish America., In the summer of 1648, yellow fever appeared for the first time on the Yucat n Peninsula, claiming the lives of roughly one-third of the population. To combat this epidemic, Spanish colonial authorities carried a miracle-working Marian icon in procession from Itzmal to the capital city of M rida and back again as a means of invoking divine intercession. Idolizing Mary uses this event and this icon to open a discussion about the early and profound indigenous veneration of the Virgin Mary. Amara Solari argues that particular Marian icons, such as the Virgin of Itzmal, embodied an ideal suite of precontact numinous qualities, which Maya neophytes reframed for their community's religious needs. Examining prints, paintings, and early modern writings about the Virgin of Itzmal, Solari takes up various topics that contributed to the formation of Yucat n Catholicism--such as indigenous Maya notions of sacrality, ritual purity, and the formal qualities of offering vessels--and demonstrates how these aligned with the Virgin of Itzmal in such a way that the icon came to be viewed by the native populations as a deity of a new world order. Thoroughly researched and convincingly argued, Idolizing Mary will be welcomed by scholars and students interested in religious transformation and Marian devotion in colonial Spanish America., Investigates the origins of Maya veneration of the Virgin Mary and the processes of religious transformation during the first two hundred years of Spanish colonization in Yucatán.
LC Classification NumberF1435.3.R3S65 2019
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