Mexican Mission - Indigenous Reconstruction Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain,

Offers a social history of the Mexican mission enterprise, emphasizing the centrality of indigenous politics, economics, and demographic catastrophe.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Ryan Dominic Crewe is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Summary

The Mexican Mission presents the most complex social history of the mission enterprise in sixteenth-century Mexico to date. Despite the crippling illness and socio-political upheaval that accompanied the Spanish conquest, the book finds that indigenous communities used the mission as a vehicle to reassert and reconstruct local sovereignty.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Dominic Crewe, Ryan Dominic (University of Colorado Crewe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108492546
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49254-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Latin America, European History, Spain, Anthropology, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Christian mission & evangelism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600