UID:
edocfu_9959244634602883
Format:
1 online resource (400 p.)
ISBN:
0-8047-7739-X
Content:
After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples-a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530's and the late eighteenth century. The author's innovative interpretation of these efforts is punctuated by three events: the creation of an Inquisition tribunal in Mexico in 1571; the native rebellion of Tehuantepec in 1660; and the emergence of eerily m
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Rethinking Indigenous Devotions in Central Mexico; 2. Before 1571: Disciplinary Humanism and Exemplary Punishment; 3. Local Cosmologies and Secular Extirpators in Nahua Communities, 1571-1662; 4. Secular and Civil Campaigns Against Native Devotions in Oaxaca, 1571-1660; 5. Literate Idolatries: Clandestine Nahua and Zapotec Ritual Texts in the Seventeenth Century; 6. After 1660: Punitive Experiments Against Idolatry; 7. In the Care of God the Father: Northern Zapotec Ancestral Observances, 1691-1706
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8. From Idolatry to Maleficio: Reform, Factionalism, and Institutional Conflicts in the Eighteenth Century 9. A Colonial Archipelago of Faith; Glossary; Abbreviation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-8865-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-7328-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804777391
