Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671

by John Charles

Alternately viewed as servants of evangelization or the plotters of its demise, indios ladinos , native Andeans who mediated contact between the Catholic authorities and indigenous communities, are often omitted from histories of the Spanish spiritual conquest in the New World. Overshadowed by the more powerful European clergy, the experiences of these native assistants--the duties they performed, the historical mechanisms by which they learned Spanish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826348319
• ISBN13: 9780826348319
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"