Del 114 - Cambridge Latin American Studies

The Mexican Mission

Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Ryan Dominic Crewe, Denver) Crewe, Ryan Dominic (University of Colorado

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In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, The Mexican Mission widens the lens to examine its political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized Mesoamerica. The mission exerted immense temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions, resources, and people. Competing communities adapted the mission to their own designs; most notably, they drafted labor to raise ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death. While the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded Spanish imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule. The Mexican mission became one of the most extensive in early modern history, with influences reverberating on Spanish frontiers from New Mexico to Mindanao.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-27
Mått158 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt610 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Latin American Studies
Antal sidor324
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108492546

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Introduction; Part I. Conversion: 1. The burning temple: religion and conquest in Mesoamerica and the Iberian Atlantic, circa 1500; 2. Christening colonialism: the politics of conversion in post-conquest Mexico; Part II. Construction: 3. The staff, the lash, and the trumpet: the native infrastructure of the mission enterprise; 4. Paying for Thebaid: the colonial economy of a mendicant paradise; 5. Building in the shadow of death: monastery construction and the politics of community reconstitution; Part III. A Fraying Fabric: 6. The burning church: native and Spanish wars over the mission enterprise; 7. Hecatomb; Epilogue: Salazar's doubt: global echoes of the Mexican mission.

'Crewe's multifaceted reassessment of early mendicant evangelization demonstrates how it served not only to impose Spanish hegemony, but also to animate ethnic persistence. In the midst of exploitation and high epidemic death tolls at mid-century, indigenous leaders and communities undertook a massive effort to build churches and monasteries as a deliberate means of perpetuating native agency.' Susan M. Deeds, Professor Emerita of History, Northern Arizona University