The Power of Huacas : : Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru / / 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 sp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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