The invisible war : indigenous devotions, discipline, and dissent in colonial Mexico / David Tavarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tavárez, David Eduardo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Religion.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies.

Idolatry--Mexico--History.

Idolatry.

Inquisition--Mexico.

Inquisition.

Christianity and other religions--Mexico.

Christianity and other religions.

Mexico--Religious life and customs.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Catholic Church--Mexico--History.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1530's 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 emergence of eerily m

Contents:

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

8. From Idolatry to Maleficio: Reform, Factionalism, and Institutional Conflicts in the Eighteenth Century 9. A Colonial Archipelago of Faith; Glossary; Abbreviation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777391

080477739X

OCLC:

719383409