Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru

by KathrynBurns (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $37.48

  Transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses to one of central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America's first convent, this title shows how nuns in Cuzco, Peru played an active part in reproducing an Andean colonial order in which economic and spiritual interests were inextricably fused.