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With Performing Conquest , Patricia Ybarra's commanding research demonstrates "performance is an epistemology of conquest" 60 and hence a historiographical practice that is negotiated by colonizers and 'colonized' alike.
Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico Performing Conquest examines the distinct Tlaxcalan identity that has evolved over the last. www.farmersmarketmusic.com: Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) ( ).
The figure of the complicitous examplar is at the heart of Ybarra's analysis of Tlaxcala, Mexico, whose tactics appear to gesture the role of indigenous sovereign and accomplice with the same stroke. Ybarra studies performances that frame and deploy Tlaxcalan historiography, probing their efficacy in the context of Mexican national narratives about colonization and independence, and into the contemporary era.
Like Ybarra, Mexican scholars such as Jaime Cuadrillo are interested in the pertinence and persistence of the "cultural identity which we shall call Tlaxcaltequidad " Cuadrillo Ybarra's research illuminates Tlaxcaltequidad as an "exemplary site of preservation of indigenous culture" , whose logics and prophecies have been flexible enough to facilitate multiple pedagogies of foreign occupation. As the title suggests, Ybarra culls from a variety of sources, including "'texts' that perform despite themselves" 25 newspaper articles, civic records, and the testimonial witness of personal memory as well as 16th-century missionary chronicles and conversion festivals; 18th-century plays; 19th-century paintings and dramas; 20th-century political events, public performances, campaigns, murals, and novels.
As Ybarra moves across time and place in pursuit of her analysis, a strategic reading calls for attention to detail as well as a broader overview of the theoretical discourses that the work obtains. For readers who are new to Mexican history, the book demands quick adjustment to an indigenously named or translated Mexico and its disputed histories.
For the experts, Performing Conquest demonstrates complex engagement with Tlaxcalan cultural identity and its living archives, as well as strategies for theorizing performance historiography. Ybarra's introduction observes a highly choreographed state visit to Tlaxcala by Bill and Hillary Clinton, in which Tlaxcala City's public ceremony frames the Presidential pair as performing "conquest in the present" 2. Ybarra recounts the event in order to demonstrate "how Tlaxcalans, and those who staged them, performed conquest while playing by the rules" 3. In a Mexico where indigenous identity is converted into nationalist promise Vasconcelos it is no surprise that "playing indian" still invokes the ethos of good Mexican citizenship.
Indigenous Tlaxcalan figureheads deliver on this cosmic promise in a variety of ways: Rendsburg , archaeological findings presented by Israel Finkelstein in undermined this idea because the Israelites' first settled areas were not held by Canaanites, whose cities were sustained alongside Israelite areas.
Book of Joshua holds little historical value. The overarching theological theme of the Deuteronomistic history is faithfulness and God's mercy, and their opposites, faithlessness and God's wrath.
In the Book of Judges , the Books of Samuel , and the Books of Kings , the Israelites become faithless and God ultimately shows his anger by sending his people into exile. The Book of Joshua takes forward Deuteronomy's theme of Israel as a single people worshipping Yahweh in the land God has given them. For example, the walls of Jericho fall because Yahweh fights for Israel, not because the Israelites show superior fighting ability. Land is the central topic of Joshua. For exilic and post-exilic readers, the land was both the sign of Yahweh's faithfulness and Israel's unfaithfulness, as well as the centre of their ethnic identity.
In Deuteronomistic theology, "rest" meant Israel's unthreatened possession of the land, the achievement of which began with the conquests of Joshua. The purpose is to drive out and dispossess the Canaanites, with the implication that there are to be no treaties with the enemy, no mercy , and no intermarriage. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, "there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.
Obedience versus disobedience is a constant theme of the work. Disobedience appears in the story of Achan stoned for violating the herem command , the Gibeonites , and the altar built by the Transjordan tribes. Joshua's two final addresses challenge the Israel of the future the readers of the story to obey the most important command of all, to worship Yahweh and no other gods. Joshua thus illustrates the central Deuteronomistic message, that obedience leads to success and disobedience to ruin. The Deuteronomistic history draws parallels in proper leadership between Moses , Joshua and Josiah.
The people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as the successor of Moses recalls royal practices. The covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah. God's command to Joshua to meditate on the "book of the law" day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings The two figures had identical territorial goals; Josiah died in BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah. Some of the parallels with Moses can be seen in the following, and not exhaustive, list: With the Zionist struggle for a Jewish state , the early Israelite campaigns have undergone renewed attention and interpretation.
The early Zionists, according to Rachel Havrelock , "read the book of Joshua as explaining their times and justifying their wars. From this perspective, God fought on behalf of manifest Israel Later, in , David Ben-Gurion "saw the biblical war narrative as constituting an ideal basis for a unifying myth of national identity. He later published a book of the meeting transcripts. In a lecture at Ben-Gurion's home, archaeologist Yigael Yadin argued for the historicity of the Israelite military campaign and remarked on how much easier it was for military experts to appreciate the plausibility of the Joshua narrative.
Yadin specifically pointed to the conquests of Hazor , Bethel , and Lachish. Conversely, archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni argued against the historicity of the early Israelite campaigns, instead favoring a migration model. Rachel Havrelock herself argues that the myth of conquest, although shaped by ardent nationalists with a military agenda, could be re-interpreted for the purposes of a decentralized post-nationalism.
By the same token, the Biblical narrative of conquest has been used as an apparatus of critique against Zionism.
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For example, Michael Prior criticizes the use of the campaign in Joshua to favor "colonial enterprises" in general, not only Zionism and have been interpreted as validating ethnic cleansing. He asserts that the Bible was used to make the treatment of Palestinians more palatable morally. Turner blamed Israel's monotheism for the very idea of genocide, which Boyarin found "simplistic" yet with precedents. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the canonical book of the Hebrew Bible.
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