Title Identity, ritual, and power in colonial Puebla / Frances L. Ramos

Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 247 pages) : illustrations Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE Contents New Spain's "second city" -- Explaining monarchy in early modern Puebla -- A reception for a prince -- Universal religion in a local context -- Power, solidarity, and diversity in the city of the angels -- The industry of spectacle -- Ritual and conflict : the political implications of ceremonial disputes, circa 1700-1750. The ceremonial expression of jurisdictional tension, 1750-1775 Summary Located between Mexico City and Veracruz, Puebla has been a political hub since its founding as Puebla de los Ángeles in 1531. Frances L. Ramos's dynamic and meticulously researched study exposes and explains the many (and often surprising) ways that politics and political culture were forged, tested, and demonstrated through public ceremonies in eighteenth-century Puebla, colonial Mexico's "second city." With Ramos as a guide, we are not only dazzled by the trappings of power--the silk canopies, brocaded robes, and exploding fireworks--but are also witnesses to the public spectacles through which municipal councilmen consolidated local and imperial rule. By sponsoring a wide variety of carefully choreographed rituals, the municipal council made locals into audience, participants, and judges of the city's tumultuous political life. Public rituals encouraged residents to identify with the Roman Catholic Church, their respective corporations, the Spanish Empire, and their city, but also provided arenas where individuals and groups could vie for power. As Ramos portrays the royal oath ceremonies, funerary rites, feast-day celebrations, viceregal entrance ceremonies, and Holy Week processions, we have to wonder who paid for these elaborate rituals--and why. Ramos discovers and decodes the intense debates over expenditures for public rituals and finds them to be a central part of ongoing efforts of councilmen to negotiate political relationships. Even with the Spanish Crown's increasing disapproval of costly public ritual and a worsening economy, Puebla's councilmen consistently defied all attempts to diminish their importance. Ramos innovatively employs a wealth of source materials, including council minutes, judicial cases, official correspondence, and printed sermons, to illustrate how public rituals became pivotal in the shaping of Puebla's complex political culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In Project MUSE Evidence Based Acquisitions (EBA) Project MUSE Subject Legitimacy of governments -- Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza -- History -- 18th century Political culture -- Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza -- History -- 18th century Political customs and rites -- Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- General. Legitimacy of governments Political culture Political customs and rites Politics and government Politische Kultur SUBJECT Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico) -- History -- 18th century Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico) -- Politics and government -- 18th century Subject Mexico -- Puebla de Zaragoza Staat Puebla Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012003243 ISBN 0816599343 9780816599349 1299191932 9781299191938

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