Readings
Primary source: Francisco Negrão, Origem de toda a theologia gentilica, e da Trindade divina, que os gentios adorão (1617)
Ângela Barreto Xavier, Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance and the Making of Goa (2022), 244-277 (Ch. 6: ‘The Martyrs of Cuncolim and Other Episodes of Resistance’) (available online here)
Catherine Infante, The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain (2022), 89-114 (Ch. 4: ‘Marian Images of Conversion’) (available online here)
Pete Sigal, ‘Franciscan Voyeurism in Sixteenth-Century New Spain’, in Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge, ed. Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead (2020), 139-168 (available online here)
Justyna Olko and Julia Madajczak, ‘An Animating Principle in Confrontation with Christianity? De(re)Constructing the Nahua “Soul”’, Ancient Mesoamerica 30, 1 (2019): 75-88 (available online here)
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World (2011), 73-132 (Ch. 2: ‘The Perils of Realpolitik’) (available online here)
Please email iberian@history.ox.ac.uk for electronic copies of the readings.
