Keyword: Americas
Sacrificial Knife (1648)
from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 156
Human sacrifice. Native American plunges a knife into another's chest. Two bodies hang, a statue of an idol or devil on a pillar stands at left (1554)
from: Pedro Cieza de León, Parte primera de la chronica del Peru, Antwerp, Iuan Steelsio, 1554, pag. 48
Incorporating Mesoamerican Cosmology within a Global History of Religion. Some Considerations on the Work of Lorenzo Pignoria
in: Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Colonial Cosmologies, pp. 70-99
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2020.
Idolatry, Markets, and Confession: The Global Project of the de Bry Family
in: Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations, pp. 140-176
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Opinion, Idolatry, and Indigenous Consciousness: Bartolomé de las Casas’ Approach to Human Sacrifice
in: Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature, pp. 156–175
Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Chamanismo y Sacrificio. Perspectivas arqueológicas y etnológicas en sociedades indígenas en América del Sur
Bogotà: Institut français d’études andines, Fundación de investigaciones arqueológicas nacionales, Banco de la República, 2015.
Sacrifice in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America: “Because the worshipping of abominable idols is the cause and the beginning of all evil”
in: Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic, pp. 23-58
Florence: Harvard University Press- Villa I Tatti, 2022.
The tomb of the weroans – An Algonquian burial house showing bodies on a raised platform and a priest squatting by a fire beneath the platform. (1590)
from: Thomas Hariot, Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia, Franckfort am Mayn, Wechel-De Bry, 1590, plate 22
The space of idolatry: reformation, incarnation and the ethnographic image
in: Res, v. 41 (2002), issue --: pp.72–91.
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1562)
from: Project on engraved sources of Spanish colonial art
Sotocoro, Temple of the Franciscan Ex-Convent of La Asunción de Nuestra Señora, Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico
Pictorial Theories by Missionaries in Sixteenth-century New Spain: the Capacities of Hieroglyphs as Media in Transcultural Negotiation
in: Art in Translation, v. 8 (2016), issue 3: pp.283-313.
A new and exact account of Jamaica. Wherein the antient and present state of the colony, its importance to Great Britain, laws, trade, manners and religion, together with the most remarkable and curious animals, plants, trees, &c. are described: with a particular account of the sacrifices, libations, &c. At this day in use among the Negroes
Edinburgh: Fleming, 1739.
De orbe nouo Petri Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensis Protonotarij Cesaris senatoris decade
Compluti · Alcala de Henares: Egino, 1530.
Angelic Death and Sacrifice in Early Modern Hispanic America
in: Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America, pp. 142-69
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.