David Tavárez

Datos Biográficos

ID87073
NOMBREDavid Tavárez
NOMBRESDavid
APELLIDOTavárez
FIRMATAVÁREZ D
AFILIACIONESVassar College
ORCID0000-0002-1033-6590
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS55
TOTAL DE CITAS54
TOTAL COMO AUTOR53
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H5

  • Language, Ritual, and Colonialism

    David TavárezCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Ritual Language2025

    This chapter provides a condensed overview of the cultural and intellectual history of ritual language from classical antiquity to the nineteenth century, with a focus on how the regimentation of ritual speech became intertwined with colonial rule and Christian indoctrination between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries as part of the emergence of colonial dynamics of knowledge in the Americas and Asia. It focuses on a central property of r…

  • Aztec Antichrist

    David TavárezARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2025

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language

    David TavárezBOOKOxford Handbook of Ritual Language2024

    This volume offers a collection of innovative chapters that address foundational questions regarding the scope, structuring, deployment, and consequences of ritual language. These works also plumb the relationship between speakers’ consciousness and verbal ritual performances and among ritual language, hegemony, collective authority, and the social world. As a vibrant survey of both traditional inquiries and recent research about the intersection…

  • Language and Colonial Rule

    David TavárezCHAPTER2024

    The study, classification, and standardization of languages by scholars, missionaries, and administrators played a vital and often protean role in the implementation and enforcement of colonial domination. Ongoing scholarship surveys the merging of linguistic investigations and linguistic knowledge with colonial hegemony in the Americas and East Asia between the late 15th century and the end of World War II, with a sustained focus on Mesoamerica …

  • Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language

    David TavárezBOOKOxford Handbook of Ritual Language2024

  • Aztec Empire, Against the Inquisition, and Lejos de Luisiana

    Open AccessDavid TavárezARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

  • We wait to be true people, Christians

    David TavárezARTICLEEthnohistory2022Referencias: 2

    Context This article presents a translation and analysis of the only extant formal confession of human sacrifice written in an Indigenous language in the colonial Americas. An analysis of this document, written in Northern Zapotec by the town officials of Yalalag in 1704, provides numerous insights about how a community deployed traditional rhetoric to seek mercy from their civil magistrate, and to provide a justification for committing acts of i…

  • A Troubled Marriage

    David TavárezBOOKJournal of Colonialism and…2021

    Reviewed by: A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous elites of the colonial Americas by Sean F. McEnroe David Tavárez A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous elites of the colonial Americas By Sean F. McEnroe. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. Ample in scope, highly accessible and compellingly written, A Troubled Marriage delineates in broad strokes a hemispheric tableau of interconnections and conflicts that bound Indigenous local and regional …

  • Legally Indian

    David TavárezCHAPTERImperial Subjects2020

  • Property and Dispossession

    Open AccessDavid TavárezARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2020

    Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Allan Greer. Studies in North American History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xviii + 450 pp. $29.99. - Volume 73 Issue 3

  • G loria E lizabeth C hacón . Indigenous Cosmolectics

    Open AccessDavid TavárezARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    Through a sustained emphasis on Maya and Zapotec fiction, poetry, and theater in Mexico and Guatemala in the last five decades, Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab’awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures provides a thoughtful introduction to the vibrant world of Indigenous authorship and cultural activism in Mesoamerican languages. As discussed in its introduction, this volume employs the term kab’awil and the notion of “kab’awilian strategi…

  • Indigenous Intellectuals in Colonial Latin America

    David TavárezCHAPTEROxford Research Encyclopedia of…2019

    The epistemic assumptions, methods, and rhetoric employed by colonial indigenous intellectuals in Latin America were based on preconquest intellectual labor and literacy systems. These practices were deeply impacted by collaborative projects and historical scholarship undertaken in the 16th century, as indigenous elites embraced European literacy and scholarly models. This merging of diverse traditions led to a “golden age” of indigenous intellec…

  • Rajeshwari Dutt. Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán

    Open AccessDavid TavárezARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    In recent times, a number of works have shed new light on the manifold transitions that indigenous communities underwent between late Bourbon times and the early national period in Spanish America. Following the path of earlier publications on these topics by Peter Guardino and Michael Thomas Ducey regarding early republican Mexico, a group of important monographs have highlighted newly available documents and made important contributions to nine…

  • Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

    David TavárezARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2018

    While Mesoamerica is viewed as a single cultural area, Mesoamericanists have long been aware of the perils of emphasizing commonalities in the region, thus compromising a deeper analysis of a diverse and divergent set of cultural practices, ecological adaptations, and social arrangements. This volume takes on an ambitious challenge, not only by attempting to address regional diversity through a variety of examples but also by positing a sustained…

  • Performing the Zaachila Word

    David TavárezCHAPTERWords and Worlds Turned Around2017

  • Words and Worlds Turned Around

    Mailing Addre, Mailing address et al.BOOKWords and Worlds Turned Around2017Citada por: 3

  • The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America

    Open AccessVirginia Garrard‐burnett, David Tavárez et al.BOOKCambridge History of Religions in…2016

    The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present. This publication is important; first, because of the historical and contemporary centrality of religion in the life of Latin America; second, for the rapid process of religious change which the region is undergoing; and third, for the region's religious distinctiveness in global comparative terms, which contribu…

  • Libana

    David TavárezARTICLEEthnohistory2016

  • Indigenous Intellectuals

    David TavárezARTICLEColonial Latin American Review2015Citada por: 5

    In the last two decades, mirabile dictu, there has been a surge in historical works that scrutinize indigenous letters and literacy in colonial Spanish America in the context of social networks, po

  • Translated Christianities

    David TavárezARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2015Citada por: 5

    Currently, the study of religion in colonial Mexico is in the midst of a dynamic phase, particularly in terms of assessments of indigenous devotions. Having left behind Robert Ricard's influential metaphor about “spiritual conquest” and its near-demiurgic portrayal of mendicants at the helm of the evangelization enterprise, studies have shifted toward the analysis of mendicant policies in institutional and regional contexts and have pursued a con…

  • Ritual language

    Open AccessDavid TavárezCHAPTERCambridge Handbook of Linguistic…2014

    This chapter emphasizes the diversity of local interpretive norms as well as putatively culture-specific ideas about the relative transparency or opacity of other minds. It deals with a quick review of some of the ways in which intersubjectivity has been conceptualized before turning to sketch the structures of interaction through which it is constituted. The human form of intersubjectivity, centrally involves joint attention and shared intention…

  • Presentación. La etnohistoria en América

    Open AccessDavid Tavárez, David Eduardo Tavárez et al.ARTICLEDesacatos2014

  • Nahua Intellectuals, Franciscan Scholars, and the Devotio Moderna in Colonial Mexico

    Open AccessDavid TavárezARTICLEThe Americas A Quarterly Review…2013

    In 1570, the Franciscan friar Jerónimo de Mendieta bestowed a rare gift on Juan de Ovando, then president of the Council of Indies. Mendieta placed in Ovando's hands a small manuscript volume in superb Gothic script with illuminated initials and color illustrations, one of several important manuscripts he had brought to Spain for various prominent recipients. Were it not for its contents, one could have thought it a meticulous version of a brevia…

  • Nahua Intellectuals, Franciscan Scholars, and the Devotio Moderna in Colonial Mexico

    David Tavárez

    In 1570, the Franciscan friar Jerónimo de Mendieta bestowed a rare gift on Juan de Ovando, then president of the Council of Indies. Mendieta placed in Ovando's hands a small manuscript volume in superb Gothic script with illuminated initials and color illustrations, one of several important manuscripts he had brought to Spain for various prominent recipients. Were it not for its contents, one could have thought it a meticulous version of a brevia…

  • Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico

    David Tavárez