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.
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.