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The Invisible WarIndigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico\nAuthor(s): David Tavarez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804788656, 978-0804788656\nSynopsis\nAfter the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoplesa project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century. \n\n The author's innovative interpretation of these efforts is punctuated by three events: the creation of an Inquisition tribunal in Mexico in 1571; the native rebellion of Tehuantepec in 1660; and the emergence of eerily modern strategies for isolating idolaters, teaching Spanish to natives, and obtaining medical proof of sorcery from the 1720s on.