Author: La Paz, Bolivia. Cofradía del Santísimo RosarioPublisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 19
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Constituciones de la Cofradía del Santísimo Rosario de la gran Madre de Dios María Santísima
Author: La Paz, Bolivia. Cofradía del Santísimo RosarioPublisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 19
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Paying the Price of Freedom
Author: Christine HünefeldtPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520378245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records—including the testimony of the slaves themselves—she uncovers the various strategies slaves invented to gain their freedom. Hünefeldt pays particular attention to marriage relations and family life. Slaves used their family solidarity as a strategy, while slaveowners used the conflicts within families to prevent manumission. The author's focus on gender relations between slaveowners and slaves, as well as between slaves, is particularly original. Her eye for ethnographic detail and her perceptive reading of the documentary evidence make this book a rich and important contribution to the study of slavery in Latin America. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches
Author: Joan Cameron BristolPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826337993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.
Hall of Mirrors
Author: Laura A. LewisPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385155
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were generated within that setting, as she shows how the cultural politics of caste produced a system of fluid and relational designations that simultaneously facilitated and undermined Spanish governance. Using judicial records from a variety of colonial courts, Lewis highlights the ethnographic details of legal proceedings as she demonstrates how Indians, in particular, came to be the masters of witchcraft, a domain of power that drew on gendered and hegemonic caste distinctions to complicate the colonial hierarchy. She also reveals the ways in which blacks, mulattoes, and mestizos mediated between Spaniards and Indians, alternatively reinforcing Spanish authority and challenging it through alliances with Indians. Bringing to life colonial subjects as they testified about their experiences, Hall of Mirrors discloses a series of contradictions that complicate easy distinctions between subalterns and elites, resistance and power.
The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret
Author: St. Anthony Mary ClaretPublisher: TAN Books
ISBN: 1505104572
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Bares the soul of a saint and reveals the methods which were so successful for him in converting others. From age 5 he was haunted by the thought of the souls about to fall into Hell. This insight fueled his powerful drive to save as many souls as he could.
Postconquest Coyoacan
Author: Rebecca HornPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804727730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Nahua-Spanish contact was not limited to formal political and economic settings. The author describes the development of Spanish estates and the market economy, which opened up a new arena of cultural contact in the countryside. In bringing Nahuas and Spaniards together in this study, the book explores the changing contours of their relationship in Central Mexico, emphasizing informal interethnic contact in the making of both the Spanish colonial economy and postconquest Nahua society.
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Author: Constituciones, estatutos, y arreglamentos de la ilustre, noble, y esclarecida Cofradía del Santísimo Rosario de María Santísima Señora Nuestra, y del Dulcísimo Nombre de Jesús, su precioso hijo
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Category : Religious institutions
Languages : es
Pages : 59
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Black Blood Brothers
Author: Nicole von GermetenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813029429
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called confraternities, these groups provided social connections, charity, and status for Africans and their descendants for over two centuries. Often organized by African women and dedicated to popular European and African saints, the confraternities enjoyed prestige in the Baroque religious milieu of 17th-century New Spain. One group, founded by Africans called Zapes, preserved their ethnic identity for decades even after they were enslaved and brought to the Americas. Despite ongoing legal divisions and racial hierarchies, by the end of the colonial era many descendants from African slaves had achieved a degree of status that enabled them to move up the social ladder in Hispanic society. Von Germeten reveals details of the organization and practices of more than 60 Afro-Mexican brotherhoods and examines changes in the social, family, and religious lives of their members. She presents the stories of individual Africans and their descendants--including many African women and the famous Baroque artist Juan Correa--almost entirely from evidence they themselves generated. Moving the historical focus away from negative stereotypes that have persisted for almost 500 years, this study is the first in English to deal with Afro-Mexican religious organizations.