Corpus Christi and the Inka

Carolyn Dean, Inka Bodies and the Bodies of Christ, pg. 7-62

Recommended: Motolina, History of the Indians of New Spain, selection through OCRA

Also Recommended: Leo Cabranes Grant, "From Scenarios to Networks, Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico" also through OCRA; Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi, Chapter 4 selection: 243-287. 

Reading response: How and why is “ambivalence” a key term in Dean’s essay? Expand in any way you like on "ambivalence" in relation to performance theory or practice in readings or ideas you have had across the semester. Or, devise your own question, pose it, and answer it.











Left: Corpus Christi in Cusco in the 16th century. Right: Corpus Christi in Cusco, Peru, today.



Medieval Corpus Christi Pageant Wagon.



















The 2005 Corpus Christi Procession in Rome.














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