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David Tavarez - The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico - 9780804788656 - V9780804788656
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The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico

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Description for The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico Paperback. Invisible Wars examines the impact of three centuries of colonial evangelization on indigenous religious practices in Central Mexico by focusing on clandestinely produced Nahua and Zapotec texts, trial records, and native resistance to disciplinary and punitive campaigns. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HRAM9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804788656
SKU
V9780804788656
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About David Tavarez
David Tavarez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. He is a co-editor of Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico (2010).

Reviews for The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
David Tavarez renders The Invisible War in such incredible detail that it is difficult to conceive of this as his first book. It reads more like a life's work: comprehensive, yet careful; formidable, but rewarding; and engrossing while exact(ing). Each sentence demands the reader's full attention because it presents so much information about specific people, particular circumstances, and the precise ... Read more

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