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

By (author) Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez

ISBN13: 9781496200556

Imprint: University of Nebraska Press

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Published: 01/02/2025

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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 Pueblo’s 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.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: The Feast and the Focus Chapter 2: Conquest, Conversion, Violence, and Secrecy Chapter 3: Religious Accommodation, Appropriation, and the Establishment of Boundaries Chapter 4: Finding the Feast Day Chapter 5: The New Order Conclusion Bibliography Index
  • History of the Americas
  • Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
  • Professional & Vocational
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