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Indigenous Miracles : Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico /

"While King Carlos I of Spain struggled to suppress the Protestant Reformation in the Old World, the Spanish turned to New Spain to promote the Catholic cause, unimpeded by the presence of the "false" Old World religions. To this end, Osowski writes, the Spanish "saw indigenous p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Osowski, Edward W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: from imperial wonders to indigenous miracles
  • Ritual burials at origin places in Chalco
  • Eighteenth-century remembrances of miracles of primordial authority
  • Cracks in incorruptibility and the traveling alms collectors
  • Gender and the spiritual tax collectors
  • Corpus Christi arches and authority in Mexico City
  • Triumphal arches and centurions in the indigenous-Spanish festival economy
  • Conclusion: from indigenous miracles to miracles of the poor
  • Appendix : Order of appearance of Corpus Christi arches, Mexico City, 1777-1780, from cathedral side door to front door.