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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 power, gender, and race make this an attractive book for a wide variety of readers." ([RR, PP, edited slightly] Brooke Larson, SUNY Stony Brook)
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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, Colonial Habits demonstrates how nuns became leading guarantors of their city’s social order by making loans, managing property, containing “unruly” women, and raising girls. Coining the phrase “spiritual economy” to analyze the intricate investments and relationships that enabled Cuzco’s convents and their backers to thrive, Burns explains how, by the late 1700s, this economy had faltered badly, making convents an emblem of decay and a focal point for intense criticism of a failing colonial regime. By the nineteenth century, the nuns had retreated from their previous roles, marginalized in the construction of a new republican order.
Providing insight that can be extended well outside the Andes to the relationships articulated by convents across much of Europe, the Americas, and beyond, Colonial Habits will engage those interested in early modern economics, Latin American studies, women in religion, and the history of gender, class, and race.
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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 power, gender, and race make this an attractive book for a wide variety of readers." ([RR, PP, edited slightly] Brooke Larson, SUNY Stony Brook)
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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, Colonial Habits demonstrates how nuns became leading guarantors of their city’s social order by making loans, managing property, containing “unruly” women, and raising girls. Coining the phrase “spiritual economy” to analyze the intricate investments and relationships that enabled Cuzco’s convents and their backers to thrive, Burns explains how, by the late 1700s, this economy had faltered badly, making convents an emblem of decay and a focal point for intense criticism of a failing colonial regime. By the nineteenth century, the nuns had retreated from their previous roles, marginalized in the construction of a new republican order.
Providing insight that can be extended well outside the Andes to the relationships articulated by convents across much of Europe, the Americas, and beyond, Colonial Habits will engage those interested in early modern economics, Latin American studies, women in religion, and the history of gender, class, and race.
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When the city council of Cuzco met on April 17, 1551, its members, all battle-hardened Spanish veterans, were enjoying a respite from seemingly endless rounds of war. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
censo payments, censo obligations, tejidos coloniales, religiosa instruida, pesos ensayados, indios nobles, censo consignativo, pesos corrientes, ecclesiastical creditors, conventos grandes, criollo aristocrats, velo blanco, ooo pesos, convent business, actas del cabildo, convent affairs, anonymous nun, velo negro, mestiza daughters, sur andino, spiritual economy, visita general, dowry funds, individual nuns, professed nuns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Clara, Santa Catalina, Diego Maldonado, Polo de Ondegardo, Santa Teresa, Don Diego, Don Antonio, Mata Linares, Don Pedro, Don Pablo Costilla, Beatriz Clara Coya, Las Nazarenas, Diego de Mendoza, Great Rebellion, Spanish American, Arias Maldonado, Isabel de Padilla, Titu Cusi, Bishop de la Raya, Guaman Poma, Saint Clare, South America, Thopa Orcoguaranca, Antonio Arbiol, Don Mariano New!
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When the city council of Cuzco met on April 17, 1551, its members, all battle-hardened Spanish veterans, were enjoying a respite from seemingly endless rounds of war. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
censo payments, censo obligations, tejidos coloniales, religiosa instruida, pesos ensayados, indios nobles, censo consignativo, pesos corrientes, ecclesiastical creditors, conventos grandes, criollo aristocrats, velo blanco, ooo pesos, convent business, actas del cabildo, convent affairs, anonymous nun, velo negro, mestiza daughters, sur andino, spiritual economy, visita general, dowry funds, individual nuns, professed nuns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Clara, Santa Catalina, Diego Maldonado, Polo de Ondegardo, Santa Teresa, Don Diego, Don Antonio, Mata Linares, Don Pedro, Don Pablo Costilla, Beatriz Clara Coya, Las Nazarenas, Diego de Mendoza, Great Rebellion, Spanish American, Arias Maldonado, Isabel de Padilla, Titu Cusi, Bishop de la Raya, Guaman Poma, Saint Clare, South America, Thopa Orcoguaranca, Antonio Arbiol, Don Mariano New!
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- The Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming on 6 pages
- Landowners in Colonial Peru (Latin American Monographs, No 61) by Keith A. Davies in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Asuncion Lavrin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology & History In Tanzania by Steven M. Feierman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Avila of Saint Teresa: Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City by Jodi Bilinkoff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds by Debra Meyers on page 61, page 67, and Back Matter
- Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds by Debra Meyers on page 61, page 67, and Back Matter
- Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600 by David Coleman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women's History: In Global Perspective Volume 2 by Bonnie G. Smith on page 224, and page 278
- Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863 by Margaret Chowning in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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