Nicachi Songs: Zapotec Ritual Texts and Postclassic Ritual Knowledge in Colonial Oaxaca
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Research Year:  2003
Culture:  Zapotec
Chronology:  Post Classic
Location:  Oaxaca, México
Site:  Villa Alta

Table of Contents

Introduction
The ethnohistorical context of the Zapotec ritual songs of Villa Alta
The linguistic and textual context of production of the Villa Alta songs
Dialectal features
Table 1. Orthographic evidence from the written colonial Cajonos Zapotec dialect
Table 2. Orthographic evidence from the written colonial Nexitzo Zapotec dialect
The Villa Alta songs and other Mesoamerican ritual genres
A preliminary analysis of the Zapotec songs of Villa Alta
The Christian clandestine songs of Villa Alta: Booklets 102 and 103
A communal ritual genre of Late Postclassic origin: Booklets 100 and 101
Structural features of the song corpus in Booklets 100 and 101
Ancestors and deity complexes in the Villa Alta songs
Four founding ancestors named in Booklets 100 and 101
Coque Yagchila (Lord 1 Cayman)
Bicia Tao (Great Eagle)
Bilatela Tao (Great 4/11 Knot)
Biquini Xila (Bird of Cotton/Feather)
Deity complexes
Table 3. Zapotec deities in Oaxaca, 16th–20th centuries
Preliminary conclusions
List of Figures
Sources Cited

Submitted 05/29/2005 by:
David Tavárez
Assistant Professor
Anthropology Department
Vassar College
Box 430
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
tavarez@vassar.edu

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