The invisible war
Subtitle: indigenous devotions, discipline, and dissent in colonial Mexico
By: David Tavárez
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780804773287
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Inquisition; Rites and ceremonies; Religious life and customs; Religion; Idolatry; Catholic Church; Christianity and other religions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking indigenous devotions in central Mexico; title: Before 1571 : disciplinary humanism and exemplary punishment; title: Local cosmologies and secular extirpators in Nahua communities, 1571-1662; title: Secular and civil campaigns against native devotions in Oaxaca, 1571-1660; title: Literate idolatries : clandestine Nahua and Zapotec ritual texts in the seventeenth century; title: After 1660 : punitive experiments against idolatry; title: In the care of God the father : northern Zapotec ancestral observances, 1691-1706; title: From idolatry to maleficio : reform, factionalism, and institutional conflicts in the eighteenth century; title: A colonial archipelago of faith.