Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Local religion in colonial Mexico / edited by Martin Austin Nesvig.

Language: English Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.Description: xxvii, 289 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780826334022 (pbk)
Contents:
The concept of popular religion / Carlos M. N. Eire; Icons of devotion: the appropriation and use of saints in New Spain / Antonio Rubial Garcia; The "Indian Question" and the case of Tlatelolco / Martin Austin Nesvig; Between Nativitas and Mexico City: an eighteenth-century pastor's local religion / William B. Taylor; Autonomy, honor, and the ancestors: native local religion in seventeenth-century Oaxaca / David Tavárez; Carriers of saints: traveling alms collectors and Nahua gender roles / Edward W. Osowski; Confraternities and community: the decline of the communal quest for salvation in eighteenth-century Mexico City / Brian Larkin; Routes to respectability: confraternities and men of African descent in New Spain / Nicole von Germeten; Voices from a living hell: slavery, death, and salvation in a Mexican Obraje / Javier Villa-Flores; Catholicisms / William Christian Jr.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KUD [NES-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L78420
Total holds: 0

Includes index.

The concept of popular religion / Carlos M. N. Eire; Icons of devotion: the appropriation and use of saints in New Spain / Antonio Rubial Garcia; The "Indian Question" and the case of Tlatelolco / Martin Austin Nesvig; Between Nativitas and Mexico City: an eighteenth-century pastor's local religion / William B. Taylor; Autonomy, honor, and the ancestors: native local religion in seventeenth-century Oaxaca / David Tavárez; Carriers of saints: traveling alms collectors and Nahua gender roles / Edward W. Osowski; Confraternities and community: the decline of the communal quest for salvation in eighteenth-century Mexico City / Brian Larkin; Routes to respectability: confraternities and men of African descent in New Spain / Nicole von Germeten; Voices from a living hell: slavery, death, and salvation in a Mexican Obraje / Javier Villa-Flores; Catholicisms / William Christian Jr.

Book