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.

Series:

Connected histories in the early modern world.

Connected histories in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confraternities--Latin America.

Confraternities.

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

Black people.

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

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Connected Histories in the Early Modern World

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I. Indigenous and Black Confraternities in New Spain

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

2. Confraternities of People of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City

3. “Of All Type of Calidad or Color”

Part II. Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Peru

4. Confraternal “Collections”

5. “Of Greater Dignity than the Negros”

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

7. Glaciers, the Colonial Archive and the Brotherhood of the Lord of Quyllur Rit’i

Part III. Indigenous Confraternities in the Southern Cone

8. Immigrants’ Devotions

9. The Marian Cult as a Resistance Strategy

10. Between Excess and Pleasure

Part IV. Black Brotherhoods in Brazil

11. Black Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil

12. Cultural Resistance and Afro- Catholicism in Colonial Brazil

13. “Much to See and Admire”

Afterword

Bibliography

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Jaque Hidalgo, Javiera Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America

ISBN:

90-485-5235-4

OCLC:

1294145670