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Of Corn and Catholicism: A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days

Of Corn and Catholicism: A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days

McComb Sanchez, Andrea Maria

Hardcover

Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies

Native American HistoryCatholicismRegional: Southwest

ISBN10: 1496200551
ISBN13: 9781496200556
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Feb 1 2025
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Of Corn and Catholicism Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the ways Pueblo religion intertwined with Spanish Catholicism, McComb Sanchez explores feast days as sites of religious resistance, accommodation, and appropriation. McComb Sanchez introduces the term bounded incorporation to conceptualize how Eastern Pueblo people kept boundaries flexible: as they incorporated aspects of Catholicism, they changed Catholicism as well, making it part of their traditional religious lifeway.

McComb Sanchez uses archival and published primary sources, anthropological records, and her qualitative fieldwork to discuss how Pueblo religion was kept secret and safe during the violence of seventeenth-century Spanish colonialism in New Mexico; how Eastern Pueblos developed strategies of resistance and accommodation, in addition to secrecy, to deal with missionaries and Catholicism in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; how patron saint feast days emerged as a way of incorporating a foreign religion on the Pueblos' own terms; and how, by the later nineteenth century, these feast days played a significant role in both Pueblo and Hispano communities through the Pueblos' own initiative.

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