The invisible war

Tavárez, David Eduardo.

The invisible war indigenous devotions, discipline, and dissent in colonial Mexico / [electronic resource] : David Tavárez. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 384 p.) : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rethinking indigenous devotions in central Mexico -- Before 1571 : disciplinary humanism and exemplary punishment -- Local cosmologies and secular extirpators in Nahua communities, 1571-1662 -- Secular and civil campaigns against native devotions in Oaxaca, 1571-1660 -- Literate idolatries : clandestine Nahua and Zapotec ritual texts in the seventeenth century -- After 1660 : punitive experiments against idolatry -- In the care of God the father : northern Zapotec ancestral observances, 1691-1706 -- From idolatry to maleficio : reform, factionalism, and institutional conflicts in the eighteenth century -- A colonial archipelago of faith.

9780804777391 (electronic bk.) 080477739X (electronic bk.)


Catholic Church--History.--Mexico


Indians of Mexico--Religion.
Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies.
Idolatry--History.--Mexico
Inquisition--Mexico.
Christianity and other religions--Mexico.
HISTORY


Mexico--Religious life and customs.
Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.


Electronic books.

F1219.3.R38 / T38 2011eb

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