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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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.