The Power of Huacas : : Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru / / Claudia Brosseder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Brosseder, Claudia,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. A Land Obsessed with Confessions; or, The Historians’ Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists --; Chapter Two. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities --; Chapter Three. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists --; Chapter Four. Talking to Demons: The Intensified Persecut ion of Andean Religious Specialists (ca. 1609–1700) --; Chapter Five. From Out spoken Criticism to Clandestine Resistance --; Chapter Six. Glimpses of the Protective Powers of Andean Rituals in the Highlands --; Chapter Seven. Andean Notions of Nature and Harm, and the Disempowerment of Andean Healers --; Chapter Eight. Weeping Statues: The End of Jesuit Demonology and the Survival of an Andean Culture --; Chapter Nine. Epilogue --; Notes --; Glossary --; Consulted Archives --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292756953; 9783110745337
• DOI: 10.7560/756946
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Claudia Brosseder.

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.