Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara
Biographic Data
| ID | 707608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brianna |
| FAMILY NAME | Leavitt-Alcántara |
| SIGNATURE | LEAVITT-ALCÁNTARA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unveiling the Virgin
In 1711, the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to a Maya couple in the small town of Santa Marta, before wondrously transforming into a miraculous image that began to draw pilgrims from across highland Chiapas. Presuming fraud, church officials confiscated the image and arrested the Maya seers. Just weeks later, another Marian apparition, with a radical message calling for an end to Spanish colonialism, catalyzed the Tzeltal Revolt, one of the larg…
O f M adres and M ayordomas
Scholars often assume that women's exclusion from the modern civil-religious cargo system in Mexico is a colonial legacy. But an analysis of Chiapas's surviving colonial cofradía books, approximately 200 in all, reveals that formalized female religious leadership was widespread in this region during the colonial period. Close to 50 cofradías in over 20 different towns elected female officials. Indigenous cofradías were clearly at the forefront of…
Reflections of Guatemala
The beautifully illustrated Reflections of Guatemala: Costume and Life in the 19th Century emerged from the recent discovery of four nineteenth-century sketchbooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Produced by French diplomat to Guatemala Léonce Angrand, the books contain watercolors and pencil sketches of Guatemalan daily life and dress in the 1850s, particularly of laboring Mayans and ladinos (those of mixed-race descent) as well as maps…
Intimate Indulgences
Most studies of pious foundations in colonial Spanish America examine an elite spiritual economy that was headed primarily by noble patriarchs whose substantial endowments sponsored the ecclesiastical careers of descendants and reinforced ties between elite families and the clergy. This analysis takes a different approach and examines modest perpetual mass foundations funded by a broader array of benefactors. These perpetual mass foundations illu…
O f M adres and M ayordomas
Scholars often assume that women's exclusion from the modern civil-religious cargo system in Mexico is a colonial legacy. But an analysis of Chiapas's surviving colonial cofradía books, approximately 200 in all, reveals that formalized female religious leadership was widespread in this region during the colonial period. Close to 50 cofradías in over 20 different towns elected female officials. Indigenous cofradías were clearly at the forefront of…
Unveiling the Virgin
In 1711, the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to a Maya couple in the small town of Santa Marta, before wondrously transforming into a miraculous image that began to draw pilgrims from across highland Chiapas. Presuming fraud, church officials confiscated the image and arrested the Maya seers. Just weeks later, another Marian apparition, with a radical message calling for an end to Spanish colonialism, catalyzed the Tzeltal Revolt, one of the larg…
Intimate Indulgences
Most studies of pious foundations in colonial Spanish America examine an elite spiritual economy that was headed primarily by noble patriarchs whose substantial endowments sponsored the ecclesiastical careers of descendants and reinforced ties between elite families and the clergy. This analysis takes a different approach and examines modest perpetual mass foundations funded by a broader array of benefactors. These perpetual mass foundations illu…
Intimate Indulgences
Most studies of pious foundations in colonial Spanish America examine an elite spiritual economy that was headed primarily by noble patriarchs whose substantial endowments sponsored the ecclesiastical careers of descendants and reinforced ties between elite families and the clergy. This analysis takes a different approach and examines modest perpetual mass foundations funded by a broader array of benefactors. These perpetual mass foundations illu…
Reflections of Guatemala
The beautifully illustrated Reflections of Guatemala: Costume and Life in the 19th Century emerged from the recent discovery of four nineteenth-century sketchbooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Produced by French diplomat to Guatemala Léonce Angrand, the books contain watercolors and pencil sketches of Guatemalan daily life and dress in the 1850s, particularly of laboring Mayans and ladinos (those of mixed-race descent) as well as maps…
O f M adres and M ayordomas
Scholars often assume that women's exclusion from the modern civil-religious cargo system in Mexico is a colonial legacy. But an analysis of Chiapas's surviving colonial cofradía books, approximately 200 in all, reveals that formalized female religious leadership was widespread in this region during the colonial period. Close to 50 cofradías in over 20 different towns elected female officials. Indigenous cofradías were clearly at the forefront of…
Unveiling the Virgin
In 1711, the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to a Maya couple in the small town of Santa Marta, before wondrously transforming into a miraculous image that began to draw pilgrims from across highland Chiapas. Presuming fraud, church officials confiscated the image and arrested the Maya seers. Just weeks later, another Marian apparition, with a radical message calling for an end to Spanish colonialism, catalyzed the Tzeltal Revolt, one of the larg…
Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Early Modern Women Writers (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)