โ Scribed by Pamela Schloesser Canepa
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What did the Penitentes really do? -- Marranos, Penitentes, and the baroque anamorphoses in action -- The machinery of secrets and the machinations of silence : conspiracies, contraptions and ludibria -- Crosscurrents and undercurrents -- Penitentes and the crazy things they do, or, How to be Jewish and Christian at the same time -- Festivals of blood here and bloody trials there : playing roles and rolling along -- Reaching towards a conclusion and some new questions.;Two groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who they truly were. Both now declare their true identities, yet raise hostility. The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practices bloody rites of self-flagellation and crucifixion, but claim this is a misrepresentation and that they are a community and a charitable organization. Marranos, an ambiguous and complicated population of Sephardic descendants, claim to be anousim. Both peoples have a complex, shared history. This book disentangles the web, redefines the terms, and creates new contexts in which these groups are viewed with respect and sympathy without idealizing or slandering them. Simms uses rabbinics, literary analyses, psychohistory, and cultural anthropology to consolidate a history of mentalities.
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