Politics of conquest -- The Saxon wars -- The Stellinga -- Conversion and Christianization -- Founders and patrons -- Religion and society
""Inga Clendinnen has written a remarkable book about the encounters of Spaniards and Maya peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula during the sixteenth century. Like the self-conscious categories used by the actors, separate halves of the book are devoted to the Spaniards and the Mayas…
Introduction. Exploding historyThe seasonality of lifeThe Mo'orean iconoclasmPomare's iconoclasm as seasonal sacrificeMore distant emulationsRe-consecrating the worldRe-binding societiesNew tabus and ancient pleasuresHistory, habitus and seasonality.
This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and in…
