Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America - Negotiating Status through Religious Practices (Hardcover)

Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities -or lay Catholic brotherhoods- founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to understand the dynamics and relations between the peripheral and central areas of colonial society, underlying the ways in which colonialized subjects navigated the colonial domain with forms of social organization and cultural and religious practices. The book analyzes indigenous and black confraternal cultural practices as forms of negotiation and resistance shaped by local devotional identities that also transgressed imperial religious and racial hierarchies. The analysis of these practices explores the intersections between ethnic identity and ritual devotion, as well as how the establishment of black and indigenous religious confraternities carried the potential to subvert colonial discourse.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
Release date:	February 2022
Editors:	Javiera Jaque Hidalgo • Miguel Valerio
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-9463721547
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Promotions
LSN:	9463721541
Barcode:	9789463721547

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