Urban Plan, Architecture, and the Geography of the Sacred in Colonial Morelos

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71200-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

In the sixteenth century, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to evangelize the indigenous peoples of central Mexico. Indigenous peoples incorporated the new faith into their belief system on their own terms, and continued to conceptualize a sacred geography that ordered their world and regulated time. At the same time, the missionaries had new sacred complexes built, but the question remains, why did indigenous peoples dedicate labor and community resources to these projects? This study analyzes the urban plan of indigenous communities, the construction of new sacred complexes, and the ways in which the urban plan conformed to the notion of sacred geography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Robert H

Meraz Quintana, Leonardo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

2 Land

3 Conclusions

4 The First Doctrina Complexes

1 The Augustinian Doctrina of Metztitlán

2 The First Doctrina Complex at Tepoztlán

3 The Franciscan Doctrina la Asunción in Mérida, Yucatán

4 Conclusions

5 Urban Plan and Development of the Communities in Northern Morelos

1 Atlatlahucan

2 Tlayacapan

3 Urban Plan and Architecture of Other Communities

4 Conclusions

6 Evangelizing the Plan de Amilpas

1 The Dominican Visita Complex at Olintepec

2 The Dominican Visita Complex at San Miguel Anenecuilco

3 The Dominican Visita Complex at Santa Ana Cuautlixco

4 The Franciscan/Dominican Visita Complex at San Hipólito Atenango “Las Bóvedas”

5 The Franciscan/Dominican Visita Complex at Santa María de la Asunción Temimilcingo

6 Conclusions

7 Creating Communities from Whole Cloth

Conclusions

8 Conclusions

Appendix 1: September 19, 2017

San Mateo Atlatlahucan (Augustinian)

San Juan Bautista Tlayacapan (Augustinian)

San Guillermo Totolapan (Augustinian)

The paleo-Christian visita chapels of Ahuatlán (Totolapan)

La Natividad Tepoztlán (Dominican)

San Juan Bautista Yecapixtla (Augustinian)

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert H. Jackson, Ph.D (1988), University of California, Berkeley, is an independent scholar living in Mexico City. He specializes in Latin American History, and his most recent book is The Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions (Brill, 2022).

Leonardo Meraz Quintana, M.A. (1993), York University, is Professor Emeritus at UAM Xochimilco, Mexico City, where he taught architectural conservation. His books include Fundaciones monásticas en la Sierra Nevada. Historia y medioambiente (UAM, 2017).