Format:
Online-Ressource (400 p)
ISBN:
9780804788656
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 1530s 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 e
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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 Century9. A Colonial Archipelago of Faith; Glossary; Abbreviation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804777391
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804773287
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Invisible War : Indigenous Devotions, Discipline and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
Language:
English
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