The Mexican mission: indigenous reconstruction and mendicant enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

Conversion -- The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500 -- Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico -- Construction -- The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise -- P...

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Main Author: Crewe, Ryan Dominic 1977- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge New York, NY Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Cambridge University Press 2019
In: Cambridge Latin American studies (114)
Year: 2019
Series/Journal:Cambridge Latin American studies 114
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B New Spain / Mission (international law / History 1521-1600
Further subjects:B Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810 Church history
B Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810 Missions
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Summary:Conversion -- The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500 -- Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico -- Construction -- The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise -- Paying for Thebaid: the colonial economy of a mendicant paradise -- Building in the shadow of death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution -- A fraying fabric -- The burning church: native and Spanish wars over the mission enterprise -- Hecatomb -- Salazarʹs doubt: global echoes of the Mexican mission.
ISBN:1108492541