Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
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Book Overview
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America's first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite, and reproducing an Andean colonial order in which economic and spiritual interests were inextricably fused.
Based on unprecedented archival research,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822322919
ISBN13:9780822322917
Release Date:March 1999
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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A subject that needs to be explored
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Katheryn Burns has written a great book. Her discussion of the spiritual economy is innovative and needs to be explored by more people. Burns uncovers a history that has been neglected by most historians but is integral to one's understanding of colonial Latin America. In short, this is must read for anyone interested in the subject.
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