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- Title
ZPRÁVA O HUASTÉCKÝCH INDIÁNECH Z PROVINCIE PÁNUCO A JEJICH NÁBOŽENSTVÍ.
- Authors
Kašpar, Oldřich
- Abstract
The present article is bringing out an annotated translation of the hitherto unknown Mexican manuscript from the seventeenth century (AGN, Mexico, Inquisicion, tomo 303, fol. 255b-256a) and its original Spanish version. It is a short report of the unknown Spanish settler intended probably for the Inquisitional Tribunal of the New Spain. It is mainly concerned with the description of the surviving pre-Colombian rituals among the Huastec Indians and a very interesting description of syncretism of the aspects of native American and African magic. The author of the article presents the basic characteristics of the Huastec ethnic group and analyses in detail this short, but very important document that brings out especially new informations on the study of the development of shamanistic and healing practices in the New Spain (Mexico). Some moments he compares with similar document, hundred years older, also from Mexico, that he published in the year 2001 (O. Kaspar, "Invizicni proces v Novem Spanelscu v roce 1538. Na okraj jednoho mexickeho rukopisu." In: Pocta Zdenku Jelinkovi. Praca musea v Koline - rada spolecenskovedni VII, Kolin, pp. 80-87) and with the "Chronicle of the Tarahumara Uprisings of the Jesuit of the Czech Province," Joseph Neumann, published in Prague in 1730. Parallel publication of the original Spanish text and its Czech translation allows utilization of the material also by foreign investigators.
- Subjects
PANUCO River Watershed (Mexico); MEXICO; HUASTEC (Mexican people); MANUSCRIPTS; INQUISITION; RELIGION; TRANSLATIONS
- Publication
Czech Ethnological Journal / Český Lid: Etnologický Casopis, 2003, Vol 90, Issue 4, p335
- ISSN
0009-0794
- Publication type
Article