Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780271083322 Academic Inspection Copy

Idolizing Mary

Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatan, Mexico
  • ISBN-13: 9780271083322
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Amara Solari
  • Price: AUD $217.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/01/2020
  • Format: Hardback 200 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
Description
Reviews
Google
Preview

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.



“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

Google Preview content