The power of huacas : change and resistance in the Andean world of colonial Peru /

The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious spe...

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Main Author: Brosseder, Claudia, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Land Obsessed with Confessions; or, The Historians' Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists -- 2. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities -- 3. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists -- 4. Talking to Demons: The Intensified Persecution of Andean Religious Specialists (ca. 1609-1700) -- 5. From Outspoken Criticism to Clandestine Resistance -- 6. Glimpses of the Protective Powers of Andean Rituals in the Highlands -- 7. Andean Notions of Nature and Harm, and the Disempowerment of Andean Healers -- 8. Weeping Statues: The End of Jesuit Demonology and the Survival of an Andean Culture -- 9. Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Consulted Archives -- Bibliography -- Index. 
520 |a The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists and the colonial world that unfolded around them, considering how the discourse about religion shifted on both sides of the Spanish and Andean relationship in complex and unexpected ways. In The Power of Huacas, Brosseder examines evidence of transcultural exchange through religious history, anthropology and cultural studies. Taking Andean religious specialists or hechizeros (sorcerers) in colonial Spanish terminology as a starting point, she considers the different ways in which Andeans and Spaniards thought about key cultural and religious concepts. Unlike previous studies, this important book fully outlines both sides of the colonial relationship. Brosseder uses extensive archival research in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Italy and the United States, as well as careful analysis of archaeological and art historical objects, to present the Andean religious worldview of the period on equal footing with that of the Spanish. Throughout the colonial period, she argues, Andean religious specialists retained their own unique logic, which encompassed specific ideas about holiness, nature, sickness and social harmony. The Power of Huacas deepens our understanding of the complexities of assimilation, showing that, within the maelstrom of transcultural exchange in the Spanish Americas, European paradigms ultimately changed more than Andean ones. 
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