Indigenous and Black confraternities in colonial Latin America : negotiating status through religious practices /

"Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities -- or lay Catholic brotherhoods -- founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious c...

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Other Authors: Jaque H., Javiera (Jaque Hidalgo), 1982- (Editor), Valerio, Miguel Alejandro (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Series:Connected histories in the early modern world ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Javiera Jaque Hidalgo, Miguel A. Valerio
  • Part I: Indigenous and Black confraternities in Spain. Religious autonomy and local religion among indigenous confraternities in colonial Mexico, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries / Laura Dierksmeier
  • Confraternities of people of African descent in seventeenth-century Mexico City / Cristina Verónica Masferrer León
  • "Of all type of calidad or color" : Black confraternities in a multiethnic Mexican parish, 1640-1750 / Krystle Farman Sweda
  • Part II: Indigenous and Black confraternities in Peru. Confraternal "collections": Black and indigenous cofradías and the curation of religious life in colonial Lima / Ximena Gómez
  • "Of greater dignity than the negros" : language and in-group distinctions within early Afro-Peruvian cofradías / Karen B. Graubert
  • African-descent women and the limits of confraternal devotion in colonial Lima, Peru / Tamara J. Walker
  • Glaciers, the colonial archive and the Brotherhood of the Lord of Quyllur Rit'i / Angelica Serna Jeri
  • Part III: Indigenous and Black confraternities in the Southern Cone. Immigrants' devotions : the incorporations of Andean Amerindians in Santiago de Chile's confraternities in the seventeenth century / Jaime Valenzuela Márquez
  • The Marian cult as a resistance strategy: the territorialized construction of devotions in the province of Potosí, Charcas, in the eighteenth century / Candela De Luca
  • Between excess and pleasure: the religious festivals of the indigenous people in Jujuy, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / Enrique Normando Cruz and Grit Kirstin Koeltzsch
  • Part IV: Black brotherhoods in Brazil. Black brotherhoods in colonial Brazil / Célia Maia Borges
  • Cultural resistance and Afro-catholicism in colonial Brazil / Marina de Mello e Souza
  • "Much to see and admire" : festivals, parades, and royal pageantry among Afro-Bahian brotherhoods in the eighteenth century / Lucilene Reginaldo