Searching for El Dorado
Performance and Ritual in Early Latin America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19157907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Versenyi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 16 |
| Pages | 330-334 |
| Publication date | 1988-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Theatre Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-464X • E-ISSN: 1474-0613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266464x0000292x |
| OpenAlex | W2115144921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The quasi-theatrical kinds of performance-ritual which existed in pre-Columbian Latin America have been little investigated, and are almost entirely neglected by English-speaking theatre scholars. In NTQ 8, Robert Potter looked at ways in which the missionaries who followed in the wake of the Spanish conquistadores tried to adapt Aztec rituals to their own proselytizing purposes: and here, Adam Versényi, in the first of a series of articles on early Latin American performance, provides an overview of the ways in which the great pre-Columbian civilizations embraced performance into their often-unfamiliar world view – suggesting that in some cases the cosmogony expressed through the dramatic rituals made them particularly ill-equipped to confront the ‘otherness’ of the invading Spaniards. Adam Versényi is currently preparing a study which parallels recent developments in Liberation Theology and Liberation Theatre in Latin America
Art · Cosmogony · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Literature · Parallels · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical Studies in Central America · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 1994 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |