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The Power of Huacas : Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru /

"The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brosseder, Claudia, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Land Obsessed with Confessions; or, The Historians' Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists
  • 2. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities
  • 3. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists
  • 4. Talking to Demons: The Intensified Persecution of Andean Religious Specialists (ca. 1609-1700)
  • 5. From Outspoken Criticism to Clandestine Resistance
  • 6. Glimpses of the Protective Powers of Andean Rituals in the Highlands
  • 7. Andean Notions of Nature and Harm, and the Disempowerment of Andean Healers
  • 8. Weeping Statues: The End of Jesuit Demonology and the Survival of an Andean Culture
  • 9. Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Consulted Archives
  • Bibliography
  • Index.