The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2011
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sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has very light edge rubbing. Examines indigenous beliefs in colonial Mexico as influencing and resisting Christian practice over three centuries. 9.25" tall; 384 pages.
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- Title
- The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
- Author
- Tavárez, David
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0804773289
- ISBN 13
- 9780804773287
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- History, Latin America, Religion
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 of sorcery from the 1720s onwards. Rather than depicting native devotions solely from the viewpoint of their colonial codifiers, this book rescues indigenous perspectives on their own beliefs. This is achieved by an analysis of previously unknown or rare ritual texts that circulated in secrecy in Nahua and Zapotec communities through an astute appropriation of European literacy. Tavárez contends that native responses gave rise to a colonial archipelago of faith in which local cosmologies merged insights from Mesoamerican and European beliefs. In the end, idolatry eradication inspired distinct reactions: while Nahua responses focused on epistemological dissent against Christianity, Zapotec strategies privileged confrontations in defense of native cosmologies.
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About the Author
David Tavárez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. He is a co-editor of Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara's La conquista de México (2010).
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