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Colonial Habits Colonial Habits Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Peru CUlCO, KATHRYN BURNS DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham and London, I999 © 1999 Duke University Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 00 Typeset in Joanna by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Frontispiece: The first cloister of Santa Catalina de Sena in Cuzco. Photo by K. Burns. Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. To my family, especially Roland Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction I Part One FOUNDING ACTS Chapter I Gender and the Politics of Mestizaje IS Chapter 2 The Dilemmas of Dominio: Reconciling Poverty and Property 41 Chapter 3 Forasteras Become Cuzquefias 70 Part Two ZEN I T H Chapter 4 Reproducing Colonial Cuzco 101 Chapter 5 Producing Colonial Cuzco 132 Part Three CRISIS AND DECLINE Chapter 6 Breaking Faith 157 Chapter 7 Surviving Republicanism 186 Epilogue 212 Appendixes 217 Notes 235 Glossary 281 Works Cited 285 Index 297 Acknowledgments In the last several years Cuzco's colonial convents have been for me rather like Borges's Aleph: if I concentrated enough on this one, very particular spot, I could see that it held an entire world of vivid signifi cance. Writing about what I saw involved crossing many boundaries, disciplinary and otherwise. I could not even have begun, much less completed, this book had it not been for the generous institutional support I received and for the warmth and help of my family, friends, and colleagues, whom I take great pleasure in thanking here. For institutional support in Cuzco, I am grateful to the directors and archivists of the Archivo Departamental del Cusco, who helped me locate an abundance of relevant documents. I could not have read them all without Margareth Najarro Espinoza and Ingrid Patricia Vi vanco Perez; my warmest thanks to them for their excellent research assistance. The camaraderie that formed among the researchers ranged around the tables of the archives in Cuzco was very special, and I want to thank my friends John Rowe and Patricia Lyon, Charles Walker, Marisa Remy, Thomas Kriiggeler, and Pedro Guibovich, who gave me invaluable help as I began, and David Garrett, Donato Amado and other members of the Taller de Historia Andina, Jean-Jacques Decoster, Carolyn Dean, Manuel Burga, Leo Garofalo, Neus Tur-Escandell, and Sabine MacCormack, who shared many ideas, archival leads, and coffee breaks with me. Madre Rosa Victoria Vega, prioress of Santa Catalina de Sena in Cuzco, gave me permission to consult colonial papers from her convent's archives, and her confidence and trust in me are deeply appreciated. I thank Madre Juana Marin Farfan, abbess of Santa Clara in Cuzco, for letting me consult her convent's early land titles, and I thank the directors and staff of the Archivo Arzobispal del Cuzco for facilitating my access to many pertinent records. I also relied on the fine library of the Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolome
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