What is it about?
This paper presents Velandia's analysis on the role that the use of sacred images had in the conversion of inhabitants throughout the Spanish Americas during the early modern period. By studying diverse evangelisation examples, which range from African slaves arriving to Cartagena; Mayas, and Jews in New Spain, as well as Muiscas in New Granada, the author analyses the control of indigenous images exercised by European missionaries to achieve a cultural domination.
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Why is it important?
The diversity of the sources (European as well as Indigenous) together with the multidisciplinary employed achieve a fresh perspective that allows the reader to acquiesce varied cultural responses to religious conversion during a process of military conquest and religious colonialism, a phenomenon which is still much in current debate.
Perspectives
This summary presents to the English speaker an introduction to innovative research in art history, and invites the reader to connect with new analysis and interpretations originated in the Global South.
Vanessa Portugal
University of Lincoln
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This page is a summary of: Darío Velandia Onofre, Destrucción y culto: políticas de la imagen sagrada en América y España (1563–1700), Journal of Early American History, December 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18770703-12020011.
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