Colonial habits : convents and the spiritual economy of Cuzco, Peru /
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America's first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elit...
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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