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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 573–604.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the door to a quite different story that contests the version of the narrative based on friars' accounts. It is indeed unquestionable that after the bloody execution of Tlaxcalan lords in 1527 “little is heard of idolatry,” but is the alleged religious enthusiasm of Tlaxcalans the main reason behind...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 509–510.
Published: 01 August 1998
...Frank Salomon Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750 . By Mills Kenneth . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1997 . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xiii, 337 pp. Cloth, $55.00 . Copyright 1998 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
Published: 01 February 2010
... though the title announced that the text was a practical guide to the extirpation of idolatries, the document served equally as a vade mecum for the treasure hunter. Given the viceroyalty’s perennial financial troubles, it made sense that there would be keen interest in the wealth uncovered from...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 481–515.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Amara Solari Abstract In the colonial theater of New Spain, multiple actors utilized the rhetoric of disease to discuss and describe the ongoing discoveries of indigenous traditional religion, which they termed idolatry. Focusing primarily on Yucatán, this article closely analyzes these usages...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 341–343.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Julia Madajczak Guardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón's “Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions .” By Viviana Díaz Balsera . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2018 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 209 pp. Cloth , $45.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 May 1969
...Troy S. Floyd The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru . By Joseph de Arriaga Father Pablo . Translated and edited by Keating L. Clark . Lexington , 1968 . University of Kentucky Press . Notes. Appendix. Index . Pp. xxiv , 192 . $7.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 517–548.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Yanna Yannakakis; Martina Schrader-Kniffki Abstract In midcolonial Villa Alta, Oaxaca, New Spain, indigenous political conflict intersected with the extirpation of idolatry to shape an arena of native social life and colonial legal culture about which we know little: Indian jurisdiction over crime...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 553–554.
Published: 01 August 2012
... but were potentially heterodox in aspect or essence. The church systematically pursued what Tavárez calls the “invisible war,” rooting out evidence of idolatry and creating the framework to discipline its practitioners. Tavárez utilizes what he calls “microsociological, ‘thick’ ethno-historical narrative...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 415–419.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the scholarship on colonial Latin America by challenging us to think about and develop new methodologies and technologies. By focusing on sexuality, mapping borders, the connections between idolatry and disease, and the relationship between language and the law, these scholars provide deeply interdisciplinary...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 781–783.
Published: 01 November 1975
... of Indian idolatries in Peru. With Gallic logic, conciseness, and clarity the author analyzes the juridical, theological, and political underpinning of the Spanish struggle to eradicate Indian idolatries. He gives the reader a masterful chronological synthesis of the struggle from 1532 to 1660; examines...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 373–374.
Published: 01 May 2006
... doctrine in 1582. Part 2 focuses on the well-studied idolatry campaigns in the archbishopric of Lima between 1610 and 1649. The last, shortest, part focuses on popular witchcraft and magic in Lima in the second half of the seventeenth century, the campaign to canonize an Indian saint, Nicolás de Ayllón...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (3): 417–448.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Celia L. Cussen Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Recent interest in the cultural history of the middle colonial period in Peru has centered on two distinct clerical efforts to guide Christian behavior: the systematic inspection tours aimed at uprooting idolatry among the Indians...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 February 2005
.... Index . 882 pp. Paper . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 The French historian Pierre Duviols pioneered the study of “the extirpation of idolatry” with La lutte contre les réligiones autochtones dans le Pérou colonial: “L’extirpation de l’idolatrie,” entre 1532 et 1660 (Lima...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 513–514.
Published: 01 August 1997
... by Duke University Press 1997 The extirpation of idolatries in Peru has been studied by various scholars, but Nicholas Griffiths, using the archives of Lima, Madrid, Seville, and Rome, is the first to study it as a social process, one that lasted from 1550 to 1825. The extirpation was organized...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 157–159.
Published: 01 February 1993
... of the seventeenth-century campaigns against idolatry are an extraordinarily rich, if painful, display of the daily concerns, customs, rivalries, and complex beliefs of rural Andeans. Although the product of Inquisitionlike pressures, these proceedings include native testimonies, and are thus treasured...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (4): 824–825.
Published: 01 November 1988
... Conquest and Colonization of Yucatan. They would be wrong. This first section sets the scene for a finely nuanced discussion of the Franciscans’ “spiritual conquest” of Yucatán. Inga Clendinnen uses the 1562 idolatry trials conducted by the friars as both figurative and literal text, and analyzes what...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Asunción Lavrin The second half of the book dwells on the acid test of Christianization: the survival of idolatry and the practice of sorcery. The need to cope with the insecurities of daily life ensured the survival of such practices as an answer to the increasing hiatus created by social...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 520–521.
Published: 01 August 1994
... manuscript. Scholars have long recognized the significance of this untitled, undated, anonymous manuscript, preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid together with Spanish-language papers pertaining to Father Francisco de Avila, the renowned seventeenth-century “extirpator of idolatries” bom in Cuzco...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 361–362.
Published: 01 May 1988
... undermined the principles of gender equality, and denied them access to wealth and prestige in their own communities. For the first time, we get glimpses of the colonial experience through the eyes of Andean peasant women. Particularly illuminating is the author’s study of idolatry trials to ferret out...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 789–790.
Published: 01 November 1996
...-destroyer deities of their traditional belief system. More modest in its dimensions, less complex in its argument, and very nicely written, Kenneth Mills’s study analyzes with equal subtlety a series of documents generated by an extirpation-of-idolatry visita in the Acas district of the central Peruvian...
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