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Of farces and jesters. Humour and laughter in pre-Hispanic and colonial Nahua culture from anthropological perspective and in the context of intercultural contact (16th-17th centuries).

2016/21/D/HS3/02672

Keywords:

humour laughter trickster Nahuas Mesoamerica

Descriptors:

  • HS3_5: Cultural history (incl. historical memory, history of material culture, historical cultural studies, cultural diversity)
  • HS3_11: Ethnography and cultural anthropology (incl. descriptions of traditional cultures, anthropology of magic, worship and religion, cultural change and global processes, anthropology of socio-cultural, ethnic and identity phenomena)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Neofilologii

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Agnieszka Brylak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: SONATA 11 - announced on 2016-03-15

Amount awarded: 191 820 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-02-08

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-06-07

Project duration:: 52 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Buffoons and Sorcerers: Merging of Witchcraft and Entertainment in Colonial Sources on Pre-Hispanic Nahuas
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Brylak
    Academic press:
    Colonial Latin American Review (rok: 2021, tom: 30(3), strony: 342-360), Wydawca: Taylor& Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/10609164.2021.1947043 - link to the publication
  2. Playfulness and humor in Nahua veintena festivals as attested in early colonial sources
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Brylak
    Academic press:
    TRACE (rok: 2023, tom: 84, strony: 31-59), Wydawca: CEMCA
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.22134/trace.84.2023.865 - link to the publication
  3. Big-Old Long Lips, Big-Old Jar Nose": Ancient Mesoamerican Monsters And Clowns And The Transformation Of Christianity In Early Colonial Mexico
    Authors:
    Benjamin Leeming
    Academic press:
    Ancient Mesoamerica (rok: 2020, tom: n.d., strony: 45305), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S0956536120000310 - link to the publication
  4. Homo ridens en los textos doctrinales franciscanos en náhuatl del periodo colonial temprano
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Brylak
    Academic press:
    Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl (rok: 2024, tom: 68, strony: ), Wydawca: IIH-UNAM
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  5. Las figuras cómicas de mono y de portadores de pintura corporal negra entre los nahuas prehispánicos y su transformación en la época colonial
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Brylak
    Academic press:
    Journal de la Société des américanistes (rok: 2024, ), Wydawca: Institut des sciences humaines et sociales (InSHS) du CNRS
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    - - link to the publication
  6. Cuando la tierra ríe. Apuntes sobre el humor ritual entre los nahuas prehispánicos.
    Authors:
    Elena Mazzetto
    Academic press:
    Revista Española de Antropología Americana (rok: 2021, tom: 51, strony: 59-82), Wydawca: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5209/reaa.64624 - link to the publication
  7. Diversión y funciones simbólicas de los enanos y jorobados en la sociedad mexica
    Authors:
    Elena Mazzetto
    Academic press:
    Memoria Americana. Cuadernos de Etnohistoria (rok: 2021, tom: 29 (1), strony: 27-53), Wydawca: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.34096/mace.v29i1.8221 - link to the publication
  1. -
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Brylak
    Book:
    The Rabbit, the Navel, and the Jester Ruler. Humor and Laughter Among the Pre-Hispanic Nahuas , Wydawca: BRILL
    Status:
    Submitted

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