Sacrifice in the conversion of Indians in New Spain
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DOI: <
10.18441/ibam.3.2003.11.7-20>
If we consider slaughter as the core of prehispanic communities, which has multiple functions, including that of promoting economic and cultural reproduction, we will see how the Spaniards made knowledge, effort and imagination to replace the multiple human sacrifices with the only one and, for them, the slaughter of Cristo.