Colonial Habits : Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru /
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America's first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elit...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Gender and the politics of Mestizaje
- 2. The dilemmas of dominio : reconciling poverty and property
- 3. Forasteras become Cuzqueñas
- 4. Reproducing colonial Cuzco
- 5. Producing colonial Cuzco
- 6. Breaking faith
- 7. Surviving republicanism.