Invisible War Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico

Name: Invisible War Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
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ISBN: 9780804788656

ISBN-10: 0804788650

ISBN-13: 9780804788656

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Tavarez

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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 to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century in Central Mexico.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 modern strategies for isolating idolaters, teaching Spanish to natives, and obtaining medical proof…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



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Acknowledgments



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


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