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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826361203321

Autore

Tavarez David Eduardo

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8047-7739-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Disciplina

972/.02

Soggetti

Indians of Mexico - Religion

Indians of Mexico - Rites and ceremonies

Idolatry - Mexico - History

Inquisition - Mexico

Christianity and other religions - Mexico

Mexico Religious life and customs

Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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