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Framing the Sacred - The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico (Paperback)
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Framing the Sacred - The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico (Paperback)
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Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era
represented the triumph of European conquest and religious
domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions
the ""cultural"" conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that
colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the
indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed
to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was
being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into
Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred
landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred,
Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico's religious
structures reveals the indigenous people's own decisions regarding
the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian
message. As Wake shows, native peoples selected aspects of the
invading culture to secure their own culture's survival. In
focusing on anomalies present in indigenous art and their
relationship to orthodox Christian iconography, she draws on a wide
geographical sampling across various forms of Indian artistic
expression, including religious sculpture and painting, innovative
architectural detail, cartography, and devotional poetry. She also
offers a detailed analysis of documented native ritual practices
that - she argues - assist in the interpretation of the imagery.
With more than 260 illustrations, Framing the Sacred is the most
extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches
and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity's
influence on Mexican peoples.
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