Saturday, January 10, 2004
9:30–11:30 a.m.
84. Power, Politics, and Colonial Ritual: Fresh Perspectives from New Spain
Marriott, Virginia Suite AJoint session with the Conference on Latin American History
| Chair: | Susan
Deans-Smith, University of Texas
at Austin |
| Papers: | The
Power of Ritual and the Inadequacy
of Authority in Colonial Mexico The
Festival that Failed: Representing
the Conquest in
Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century Mexico City Ritual
and Conflict in Colonial Puebla:
The
Political Implications
of Ceremonial Disputes |
| Comment: | Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto |
