Drama under the skin : baroque Catholic ritual in northern New Spain / Juana Moriel-Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moriel-Payne, Juana, author.

Series:

Global borderlands

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Mexico--Hidalgo del Parral--History--17th century.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--New Spain--History.

Catholic Church--Customs and practices.

Black people--Religious life--Mexico--Hidalgo del Parral.

Black people.

Indigenous people--Religious life--Mexico--Hidalgo del Parral.

Indigenous people.

Hidalgo del Parral (Mexico)--Religious life and customs.

Hidalgo del Parral (Mexico).

New Spain--Religious life and customs.

New Spain.

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

Mexico.

Catholic Church--History.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Uses Catholic ritual to examine race and identity formation of both free and enslaved people of African descent and Indigenous groups in northern New Spain"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction to the fortunes and misfortunes of San Joseph del Parral

The medieval mask of La Nueva Vizcaya

The African diaspora a borderlands labyrinth

The diverse mask of New Spain's Frontier

Carnival : a mining town upside down

Naturales and Pardos Cofradías' local taste of the universal church

Naturales and Pardos Cofradías in the turn to the eighteenth century

A town in quicksand between baroque fervor and enlightened Reason

Pardos' fiestas : a carousel in a diasporic frontier

Capellanías spiritualized lives in a silver house of mirrors drama's dénouement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Moriel-Payne, Juana. Drama under the skin

ISBN:

9781682832158

1682832155

OCLC:

1409621157