Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Subject terms

Ashes, ashes.... What do we have in our collection on Ash Wednesday. A subject search turned up one item. A word or phrase search turned up two items.

The people who catalog materials are extraordinarily detail oriented. They care about the size of the material, the authorship, the publisher, and the contents of the item. I was a bit surprised that Holy Wednesday [electronic resource] : a Nahua drama from early colonial Mexico by Louise M Burkhart has the subject 'Ash Wednesday-Mexico.' Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. This play deals with the end of Lent (Holy Week) not the beginning (Ash Wednesday). I wonder what the cataloger was thinking?

-kss

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