Main entry:

Wake, Eleanor, 1948-

Title & Author:

Framing the sacred : the Indian churches of early colonial Mexico / Eleanor Wake.

Publication:

Norman [Okla.] : University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.

Description:

xxi, 338 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-322) and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Ritual manifestations and the search for the sacred -- Ch. 2. Colonial ritual and the accommodation of the Christian sacred -- Ch. 3. Indoctrination and the building of churches -- Ch. 4. Native perception of churches -- Ch. 5. Architectural detail : embedded stones -- Ch. 6. Painting and sculpture in an Indo-Christian context -- Ch. 7. Framing the sacred -- Appendix A. Churches, chapels, monastery complexes and other religious buildings visited by the author (1991-2007) -- Appendix B. Sample of native maps and their representations of churches cited in Chapter 4 -- Notes -- Glossary of frequently used Nahuatl or Nahuatl-derived terms -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN:

9780806140339 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
080614033X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Church architecture Mexico.
Architecture, Spanish colonial Mexico.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Mexico.
Christian art and symbolism Mexico Modern period, 1500-
Symbolism in architecture Mexico.
Indian art Mexico.
Architecture and society Mexico History 16th century.
Architecture chrétienne Mexique.
Architecture coloniale espagnole Mexique.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Mexique.
Symbolisme en architecture Mexique.
Architecture et société Mexique Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Spanish colonial.
Christian art and symbolism Modern period.
Church architecture.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Indian art.
Symbolism in architecture.
Mexico.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269290
Call No.: NA5253 .W35 2009
Status: Available