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Indigenous angels: hybridity and troubled identities in the Iberian network
Author(s) -
Estévez Escardiel González
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
renaissance studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1477-4658
pISSN - 0269-1213
DOI - 10.1111/rest.12595
Subject(s) - hybridity , indigenous , identity (music) , representation (politics) , accommodation , perspective (graphical) , history , order (exchange) , visual culture , sociology , aesthetics , gender studies , ethnology , visual arts , art , anthropology , political science , psychology , law , ecology , finance , neuroscience , politics , economics , biology
This article examines depictions of Christian angels in Iberian America in the early modern era. It explores a wide range of primary textual and visual sources in order to examine the following issues: the cultural interaction and strategies of accommodation; material and artistic exchange; the reach of the concept of hybridity; and Iberian visual networks. Angels in the Hispanic world have been studied primarily from an iconographic perspective, and their indigenous features have only rarely been analysed. This study discusses the conception and representation of the Indianized angel both verbally and visually in different locations in the Mexican, Andean, Guaraní and Californian missions, and the reconfigurations of identity that emerged in those contexts.