ISBN:
0884022390
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 480 S.
,
zahlr. Ill., Kt.
DDC:
972/.018
Keywords:
Geschichte 1492-1992
;
Aztèques - Acculturation - Congrès
;
Aztèques - Conditions sociales - Congrès
;
Incas - Acculturation - Congrès
;
Incas - Conditions sociales - Congrès
;
Indiens - Acculturation - Congrès
;
Indiens - Acculturation - Pérou - 1500-1800
;
Aztecs Congresses Cultural assimilation
;
Aztecs Congresses Social conditions
;
Incas Congresses Cultural assimilation
;
Incas Congresses Social conditions
;
Inka
;
Azteken
;
Kultur
;
Amérique latine - Relations interethniques
;
Konferenzschrift 1992
;
Konferenzschrift 1992
;
Azteken
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1492-1992
;
Inka
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1492-1992
Abstract:
"Important anthology marking, but not celebrating, the Columbian Quincentenary, directing attention to indigenous cultural responses to the Spanish intrusion in Mexico and Peru, utilizing as much as possible native documents and sources, and exploring mentalities. While we can benefit from the analysis and methodology in all contributions to this volume, items certain to interest Mesoamericanists include: Hill Boone, 'Introduction,' for the volume's orientation; Laiou, 'The Many Faces of Medieval Colonization,' for background, analysis of colonization as process, and its multiple forms; Lockhart, 'Three Experiences of Culture Contact: Nahua, Maya, and Quechua,' for special attention to language change as a reflection of broader cultural evolution in key areas; Hill Boone, 'Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico,' for an examination of the endurance of these forms in 16th-century Nahua culture; Wood, 'The Social vs
Abstract:
Legal Context of Nahuatl Titulos,' for an examination of community self-representation in native manuscripts and pictorials in the eighteenth century; Gillespie, 'The Triple Alliance: A Postconquest Tradition,' for an explanation of the colonial manipulation of the symbolic triadic organization for a new historical tradition; Burkhart, 'Pious Performances: Christian Pageantry and Native Identity in Early Colonial Mexico,' for a study of the Nahuas' reshaping of Christian ritual; Karttunen, 'Indigenous Writing as a Vehicle of Postconquest Continuity and Change in Mesoamerica,' for an examination of Nahua and Maya writing traditions into the present, including evidence of women's lesser but possibly significant role; and, Cummins, 'Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: Commentary,' for concluding reflections on the interrelated elements of text (written, performative, visual, auratic, and so on), image, discourse, language, traditions, identity, and colonialism"--Handbook of Lat
Abstract:
n American Studies, v. 58.. - http://www.loc.gov/hla
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