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The invisible war : Indigenous devotions, discipline, and dissent in colonial Mexico /

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 to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tavárez, David Eduardo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rethinking Indigenous devotions in central Mexico
  • Before 1571 : disciplinary humanism and exemplary punishment
  • Local cosmologies and secular extirpators in Nahua communities, 1571-1662
  • Secular and civil campaigns against native devotions in Oaxaca, 1571-1660
  • Literate idolatries : clandestine Nahua and Zapotec ritual texts in the seventeenth century
  • After 1660 : punitive experiments against idolatry
  • In the care of God the father : northern Zapotec ancestral observances, 1691-1706
  • From idolatry to maleficio : reform, factionalism, and institutional conflicts in the eighteenth century
  • A colonial archipelago of faith.