Colonial habits : convents and the spiritual economy of Cuzco, Peru

Colonial habits : convents and the spiritual economy of Cuzco, Peru /

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 elit...

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Main Author: Burns, Kathryn, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999
Subjects:
Convents > Social aspects > Peru > Cuzco > History.
Convents > Economic aspects > Peru > Cuzco > History.
Women > Peru > Cuzco > Social conditions.
Mestizos > Peru > Cuzco > History.
Social structure > Peru > Cuzco > History.
Cuzco (Peru) > Social life and customs.
Cuzco (Peru) > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gender and the politics of Mestizaje
  • 2. The dilemmas of dominio : reconciling poverty and property
  • 3. Forasteras become Cuzqueñas
  • 4. Reproducing colonial Cuzco
  • 5. Producing colonial Cuzco
  • 6. Breaking faith
  • 7. Surviving republicanism.

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