Indigenous and black confraternities in colonial Latin America : negotiating status through religious practices / edited by Javiera Jaque Hidalgo and Miguel A. Valerio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaque H., Javiera (Jaque Hidalgo), 1982- editor.

Valerio, Miguel Alejandro, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Connected histories in the early modern world ; 5.

Connected histories in the early modern world ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confraternities--Latin America.

Confraternities.

Indigenous peoples.

Religious life.

History.

Black people--Religious life.

Black people.

Latin America.

Black people--Religious life--Latin America--History.

Indigenous peoples--Religious life--Latin America--History.

Physical Description:

413 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities -- or lay Catholic brotherhoods -- founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to understand the dynamics and relations between the peripheral and central areas of colonial society, underlying the ways in which colonialized subjects navigated the colonial domain with forms of social organization and cultural and religious practices. The book analyzes indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resistance shaped by local devotional identities that also transgressed imperial religious and racial hierarchies. The analysis of these practices explores the intersections between ethnic identity and ritual devotion, as well as how the establishment of black and indigenous religious confraternities carried the potential to subvert colonial discourse."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Indigenous and Black Confraternities in New Spain

1. Religious Autonomy and Local Religion among Indigenous Confraternities in Colonial Mexico, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries / Laura Dierksmeier

2. Confraternities of People of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City / Cristina Veronica Masferrer Leon

3. "Of All Type of Calidad or Color" Black Confraternities in a Multiethnic Mexican Parish, 1640-1750 / Krystle Farman Sweda

pt. II Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Peru

4. Confraternal "Collections" Black and Indigenous Cofradias and the Curation of Religious Life in Colonial Lima / Ximena Gomez

5. "Of Greater Dignity than the Negros" Language and In-Group Distinctions within Early Afro-Peruvian Cofradias / Karen B. Graubart

6. African-Descent Women and the Limits of Confraternal Devotion in Colonial Lima, Peru / Tamara J. Walker

7. Glaciers, the Colonial Archive and the Brotherhood of the Lord of Quyllur Rit'i / Angelica Serna Jeri

pt. III Indigenous Confraternities in the Southern Cone

8. Immigrants' Devotions The Incorporation of Andean Amerindians in Santiago de Chile's Confraternities in the Seventeenth Century / Jaime Valenzuela Marquez

9. The Marian Cult as a Resistance Strategy The Territorialized Construction of Devotions in the Province of Potosi, Charcas, in the Eighteenth Century / Candela De Luca

10. Between Excess and Pleasure The Religious Festivals of the Indigenous People of Jujuy, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries / Grit Kirstin Koettzsch

pt. IV Black Brotherhoods in Brazil

11. Black Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil Devotion and Solidarity / Celia Maia Borges

12. Cultural Resistance and Afro-Catholicism in Colonial Brazil / Marina de Mello e Souza

13. "Much to See and Admire" Festivals, Parades, and Royal Pageantry among Afro-Bahian Brotherhoods in the Eighteenth Century / Lucilene Reginaldo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789463721547

9463721541

OCLC:

1285276558