Female Roles in the Religious Rituals and Political Performances among the pre-Colonial and Colonial Nahua

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Katarzyna Szoblik

The work presented is part of a larger study dedicated to the place of women in the Nahua oral tradition and focuses on one of the aspects of this subject, namely on the set of roles performed by female protagonists in the artistic manifestations of religious and political contexts. An analysis of the archetypical women’s roles in the song-dances (in Nahuatl: cuicatl) registered in various colonial manuscripts, as well as in the indigenous myths, leads to important considerations on the idealized vision of women in the investigated culture.

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Nahua Women, Songs, Orality, Religion, Politics

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Szoblik, Katarzyna. “Female Roles in the Religious Rituals and Political Performances among the pre-Colonial and Colonial Nahua”. Mitologías hoy, 2019, vol.VOL 19, pp. 309-23, https://raco.cat/index.php/mitologias/article/view/359506.
Author Biography

Katarzyna Szoblik, Universidad de Bielsko-Biala

Licenciada en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Varsovia y Doctora en literatura por la citada universidad, becaria del programa START 2015 de la Fundación para la Ciencia Polaca. Ha publicado varios trabajos acerca de los cantares en lengua nahuatl y el lugar de la mujer en las sociedades indígenas. Actualmente sus proyectos de investigación giran en torno a las relaciones entre la oralidad y escritura en el sistema de comunicación nahua de la época colonial.