
Of Corn and Catholicism
A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days
By: Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez
Hardcover | 1 February 2025
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In Of Corn and Catholicism Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez examines the development of the patron saint feast days among Eastern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the ways Pueblo religion intertwined with Spanish Catholicism, McComb Sanchez explores feast days as sites of religious resistance, accommodation, and appropriation. McComb Sanchez introduces the term "bounded incorporation" to conceptualize how Eastern Pueblo people kept boundaries flexible: as they incorporated aspects of Catholicism, they changed Catholicism as well, making it part of their traditional religious lifeway.
McComb Sanchez uses archival and published primary sources, anthropological records, and her qualitative fieldwork to discuss how Pueblo religion was kept secret and safe during the violence of seventeenth-century Spanish colonialism in New Mexico; how Eastern Pueblos developed strategies of resistance and accommodation, in addition to secrecy, to deal with missionaries and Catholicism in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; how patron saint feast days emerged as a way of incorporating a foreign religion on the Pueblos' own terms; and how, by the later nineteenth century, these feast days played a significant role in both Pueblo and Hispano communities through the Pueblos' own initiative.
Andrea Maria McComb Sanchez is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona.
Industry Reviews
"An impressive piece of scholarship. It will be incredibly useful for courses on the Southwest, religious traditions, Native American studies, [and] American studies. I found its working through of the place of patron saint feast days incredibly compelling-thoughtful and sophisticated in its rejection of easy formulations about what is and is not tradition. . . . A pleasure to read."-Anthony K. Webster, author of Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry
ISBN: 9781496200556
ISBN-10: 1496200551
Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
Published: 1st February 2025
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 230
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.75
Weight (kg): 0.51
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