Staging Christ's Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico

by Louise M. Burkhart

Staging Christ's Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico explores the Passion plays performed in Nahuatl (Aztec) by Indigenous Mexicans living under Spanish colonial occupation. Though sourced from European writings and devotional practices that emphasized the suffering of Christ and his mother, this Nahuatl theatrical tradition grounded the Passion story in the Indigenous corporate community. Passion plays had courted controversy in Europe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646424492
• ISBN13: 9781646424498
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies
• Length: 334 Pages