Some Observations on Mission Methods and Native Reactions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

• Autores: Stafford Poole
• Localización: The Americas: A quarterly review of inter-american cultural history, ISSN 0003-1615, Vol. 50, Nº. 3, 1994, págs. 337-349
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The purpose of this article is to examine some aspects of the evangelization of New Spain in the sixteenth century and the natives’ responses to it. This is a subject of tortuous complexity and one that cannot be adequately treated in a brief essay. Rather, this will be an attempt to highlight some of the more important and interesting aspects of this phenomenon. In doing so I will use some of my own researches into the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mexico to illustrate it and to show some of the pitfalls inherent in the topic.