Historical and epistemological limits in subaltern studies

Abstract

Consider that the friars and the secular clergy each has its own form of penance; consider that the Franciscan friars have one manner of doctrine and one way of life and one dress and one way of prayer; and the Augustinians another; and the Dominicans another; and the secular clergy another … and it was also like this among those who kept our gods, so that the ones from Mexico had one way of dress and prayer … and other towns had another; each town had its own way of sacrificing.