Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Connected Histories in the Early Modern World 2
3. Table of Contents 5
4. Introduction 9
5. Part I. Indigenous and Black Confraternities in New Spain
6. 1. Religious Autonomy and Local Religion among Indigenous Confraternities in Colonial Mexico, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries 37
7. 2. Confraternities of People of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City 63
8. 3. “Of All Type of Calidad or Color” 91
9. Part II. Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Peru
10. 4. Confraternal “Collections” 117
11. 5. “Of Greater Dignity than the Negros” 135
12. 6. African-Descent Women and the Limits of Confraternal Devotion in Colonial Lima, Peru 163
13. 7. Glaciers, the Colonial Archive and the Brotherhood of the Lord of Quyllur Rit’i 181
14. Part III. Indigenous Confraternities in the Southern Cone
15. 8. Immigrants’ Devotions 211
16. 9. The Marian Cult as a Resistance Strategy 241
17. 10. Between Excess and Pleasure 273
18. Part IV. Black Brotherhoods in Brazil
19. 11. Black Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil 299
20. 12. Cultural Resistance and Afro- Catholicism in Colonial Brazil 319
21. 13. “Much to See and Admire” 335
22. Afterword 359
23. Bibliography 367
24. Contributors 399
25. Acknowledgements 405
26. Index 407