Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest

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Fig. 0.2 Aztec acrobat in Spain. Das Trachtenbuch des Christoph Weiditz (1529), fol. 9. Courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Fig. 0.3 Ollin (movement). Codex Telleriano-Remensis, fol. 33r. Courtesy of Bibliothèque nationale de France. Fig. 0.4 Cihuateteo. Codex Borgia, pl. 39. Courtesy of Dover Publications. Fig. 3.1 Aztec dancers and musicians. Florentine Codex, book 8, chapter 14. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Med. Palat. 219, c. 338v. Fig. 3.4 Atamalcualiztli. Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales (II/3280), fol. 254r. © PATRIMONIO NACIONAL. Fig. 4.5 The Massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl. Diego Durán, History of the Indies of New Spain (ca. 1581), fol. 211r. Courtesy of Biblioteca Nacional de España. Fig. 5.3 Dancing at the cuicacalli. Diego Durán, Book of Gods and Rites, fol. 305r. Courtesy of Biblioteca Nacional de España. Fig. 5.4 Xochipilli, “The God of Dance.” Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City. Photograph © John Bigelow Taylor. Fig. 5.6 Xochipilli drumming and Huehuecoyotl dancing and singing. Codex Borbonicus, fol. 4. Courtesy of ADEVA, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria. Fig. 5.8 Dance of the Emperor. Crónica de Michoacán, v. 18. Courtesy of the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico. Fig. 5.9 Dance of the Emperor Montezuma. Joaquín Antonio de Basarás y Garaygorta, Origen, costumbres, y estado presente de mexicanos y philipinos (1763), lam. 3, 118. Courtesy of the Hispanic Society of America, New York. ...