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Bad Christians, New Spains - Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World (Paperback)
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Bad Christians, New Spains - Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World (Paperback)
Series: The Anthropology of History
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This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of
which began in the 1540s. One involved relations of Europeans and
Native Americans in the Oaxacan town of Yanhuitlan (in New Spain,
today's Mexico). The other involved relations of Moriscos (recent
Muslim converts to Catholicism) and Old Christians (people with
deep Catholic ancestries) in the Mediterranean kingdom of Valencia
(in the "old" Spain). Although separated by an ocean, the social
worlds preserved in these inquisitorial files share many things. By
bringing the two inquisitions together, Hamann reveals how very
local practices and debates had long-distance parallels, parallels
that reveal larger entanglements of the early modern world. Through
a dialogue of two microhistories, he presents a macrohistory of
large-scale social transformation. We see how attempts in both
places to turn old worlds into new ones were centered on struggles
over materiality and temporality. By paying close attention to
theories (and practices) of reduction and conversion, Hamann
suggests we can move beyond anachronistic models of social change
as colonization, and place early modern concepts of time and
history at the center of our understandings of the
sixteenth-century past. Overall, this project intervenes in major
debates from both history and anthropology: about the writing of
global histories, our conceptualizations of the colonial, the
nature of religious and cultural change, and the roles of material
things in social life and the imagination of time.
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