The indigenous religiosity and the original sin

Marialba Pastor. Los pecados de la carne en el Nuevo Mundo. La visión española del indio americano. Barcelona: Crítica, 2021.

Abstract

This review of the book Los pecados de la carne en el Nuevo Mundo. La visión española del indio americano by Marialba Pastor seeks to analyze how the author addresses the intellectual process which shaped and gave content to the taxonomy of the prehispanic gods during the first half of the 16^th Century, first among the conquerors and colonial administrators, and then to the religious sources (Franciscan and Dominican). Likewise, reviews the way in which the text presents the transcendence of the partial approaches focused on the formation of an institutional order and the origin of the Creole identities. In this way, through this review it will be shown the contribution that the work of Pastor has in the anthropological and historiographical studies related to the vision that the Spanish used to have about the Americans during the conquest.