Contents

pp 5-8

Introduction - Negotiating Status through Confraternal Practices

pp 9-34

Part I - Indigenous and Black Confraternities in New Spain

pp 35-36

1 - Religious Autonomy and Local Religion among Indigenous Confraternities in Colonial Mexico, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries

pp 37-62

2 - Confraternities of People of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City

pp 63-90

3 - “Of All Type of Calidad or Color”: Black Confraternities in a Multiethnic Mexican Parish, 1640-1750

pp 91-114

Part II - Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Peru

pp 115-116

4 - Confraternal “Collections”: Black and Indigenous Cofradías and the Curation of Religious Life in Colonial Lima

pp 117-134

5 - “Of Greater Dignity than the Negros”: Language and In-Group Distinctions within Early Afro-Peruvian Cofradías

pp 135-162

6 - African-Descent Women and the Limits of Confraternal Devotion in Colonial Lima, Peru

pp 163-180

7 - Glaciers, the Colonial Archive and the Brotherhood of the Lord of Quyllur Rit’i

pp 181-208

Part III - Indigenous Confraternities in the Southern Cone

pp 209-210

8 - Immigrants’ Devotions: The Incorporation of Andean Amerindians in Santiago de Chile’s Confraternities in the Seventeenth Century

pp 211-240

9 - The Marian Cult as a Resistance Strategy: The Territorialized Construction of Devotions in the Province of Potosí, Charcas, in the Eighteenth Century

pp 241-272

10 - Between Excess and Pleasure: The Religious Festivals of the Indigenous People of Jujuy, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries

pp 273-296

Part IV - Black Brotherhoods in Brazil

pp 297-298

11 - Black Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: Devotion and Solidarity

pp 299-318

12 - Cultural Resistance and Afro-Catholicism in Colonial Brazil

pp 319-334

13 - “Much to See and Admire”: Festivals, Parades, and Royal Pageantry among Afro-Bahian Brotherhoods in the Eighteenth Century

pp 335-358

Afterword - Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America

pp 359-366

Bibliography

pp 367-398

Contributors

pp 399-404

Acknowledgements

pp 405-406

Index

pp 407-413