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

Author: Kathryn Burns
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
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Transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses to one of central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America's first convent, this title shows how nuns in Cuzco,  Read more...

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Burns, Kathryn, 1959-
Colonial habits.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)636283025
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kathryn Burns
ISBN: 0822322595 9780822322597 0822322919 9780822322917
OCLC Number: 39195254
Description: xi, 307 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
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
Responsibility: Kathryn Burns.

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"It is fascinating to revisit the history of Cuzco through the gates of the convent. Burns' clear, succinct prose, her gift for narrative, her eye for detail, and her engagement of larger issues of Read more...

 
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