The Mexican Mission —— Indigenous Reconstruction And Mendicant Enterprise In New Spain, 1521–1600

----- 墨西哥的使命：新西班牙的土著重建和行乞企业

ISBN: 9781108600576 出版年：2019 页码：330 Ryan Dominic Crewe Cambridge University Press

In the sixty years following the spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central mexico suffered the equivalent of three black deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, the mexican mission widens the lens to examine its political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized mesoamerica. The mission exerted immense temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions, resources, and people. Competing communities adapted the mission to their own designs; most notably, they drafted labor to raise ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death. While the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded spanish imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule.