The invisible war : indigenous devotions, discipline, and dissent in colonial Mexico /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tavárez, David Eduardo
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Indians of Mexico > Religion. Indians of Mexico > Rites and ceremonies. Catholic Church > Mexico > History. Idolatry > Mexico > History. Inquisition > Mexico. Christianity and other religions > Mexico. Mexico > Religious life and customs. Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Table of Contents:

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.