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Author:

Wake, Eleanor, 1948-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxi, 338 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Ritual manifestations and the search for the sacred -- Colonial ritual and the accommodation of the Christian sacred -- Indoctrination and the building of churches -- Native perception of churches -- Architectural detail : embedded stones -- Painting and sculpture in an Indo-Christian context -- Framing the sacred.

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)269282193

LCCN:

2008047270

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)