Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction: Negotiation between Religion and the Law
I. Politics
1. José de Acosta: Colonial Regimes for a Globalized Christian World
2. Conquistador Counterpoint: Intimate Enmity in the Writings of Bernardo de Vargas Machuca
3. Voices of the Altepetl: Nahua Epistemologies and Resistance in the Anales de Juan Bautista
4. Performances of Indigenous Authority in Postconquest Tlaxcalan Annals: Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza’s Historia cronológica de la noble ciudad de Tlaxcala
II. Religion
5. Translating the “Doctrine of Discovery”: Spain, England, and Native American Religions
6. Narrating Conversion: Idolatry, the Sacred, and the Ambivalences of Christian Evangelization in Colonial Peru
7. Old Enemies, New Contexts: Early Modern Spanish (Re)-Writing of Islam in the Philippines
8. Art that Pushes and Pulls: Visualizing Religion and Law in the Early Colonial Province of Toluca
III. Law
9. The Rhetoric of War and Justice in the Conquest of the Americas: Ethnography, Law, and Humanism in Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de Las Casas
10. Human Sacrifice, Conquest, and the Law: Cultural Interpretation and Colonial Sovereignty in New Spain
11. Legal Pluralism and the “India Pura” in New Spain: The School of Guadalupe and the Convent of the Company of Mary
12. Our Lady of Anarchy: Iconography as Law on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire
Afterword: Teleiopoesis at the Crossroads of the Colonial/Postcolonial Divide
Contributors
Index