Textiles and liturgical uses in the Spanish-American colonial Church: Review of the book Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820 by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi

• Autor: Solórzano Gonzales, Mónica
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/1328
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/1328
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: reseña; textiles; usos litúrgicos; periodo virreinal; book review

The pre-colonial Andean peoples were mainly weavers. This has been pointed out by scholars such as L. Lumbreras (1988), J. Murra (2002) and F. Stastny (1981), who have also explained the importance of the textile practice and the roles assigned to the textile object in ancient Peru, the which, in addition to being used as clothing, became a sign and symbol of identity and social status, an offering in festive and funeral rituals and in sacrifices to the deities, and a valuable tribute to the Inca State. With the Hispanic occupation and the consequent cultural confrontation, transcendental changes would occur, however, some elements of the ancestral Andean fabric would survive.