Indigenous Miracles - Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Edward W. Osowski is a professor of history at John Abbott College in Montreal. He was awarded a Fulbright dissertation scholarship for Mexico in 1998 and co-edited Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader. Klappentext Examines how the Nahua elite of central Mexico secured political legitimacy through the administration of public rituals centred on miraculous images of Christ the King. It argues that these images were adopted as community symbols and allowed Nahua leaders to "represent their own kingship”, protecting their claims to legitimacy. This legitimacy allowed them to act collectively to prevent the loss of many aspects of their culture.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Osowski, Edward W Osowski, Edward W. Osowski
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2010
• EAN: 9780816528554
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-2855-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous