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

Author/creator Tavárez, David Eduardo
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p.[336]-360) and index.
LCCN 2010039736
ISBN9780804773287 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804773289 (cloth : alk. paper)

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