Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
By Mónica Díaz.
Description
Sometime in the 1740s, Sor MarÃa Magdalena, an indigenous noblewoman living in one of only three convents in New Spain that allowed Indians to profess as nuns, sent a letter to Father Juan de Altamirano to ask for his help in getting church prelates to exclude Creole and Spanish women from convents intended for indigenous nuns only. Drawing on this and other such letters--as well as biographies, sermons, and other texts--Mónica DÃaz argues that the survival of indigenous ethnic identity was effectively served by this class of noble indigenous nuns.While ...
ISBN(s)
0816528535, 9780816528530
