Syncretism and emerging identities. The Manual of Jacinto de la Serna (1630)

In this paper, we move from an unusual perspective to the various processes to extirpate idolatry in Peru and Mexico. The usual practice in this subject has been the emphasis on the fact of the persistence of indigenous beliefs a century after the first systematic Christianization offensives in both viceroys.

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Sara Elena Pérez-Gil y Patricia Ravelo (coord.), Voces disidentes. Debates contemporáneos en los estudios de género en México, México, CIESAS/Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2004.

Dissident voices. Contemporary debates in the studies of gender in Mexico
This compilation of essays assembles the efforts of different female experts that, from the specific look of their disciplines, examine diverse aspects of the gender — law and rights, nutrition, work, health, power, eroticism and identity — in the Mexican society. This way, are examined from the interdisciplinary — in different depths, angles and positions and with dissimilar methodologies — diverse social and temporary spaces where the relations of gender are the main focus.

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