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The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism
Susan Schroeder (Ed.)
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Description for The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism
Hardback. The Spaniards portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. This volume addresses aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest and Spanish colonialism. Editor(s): Schroeder, Susan. Num Pages: 273 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546.
The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. Their accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises, tribute accounts, theatre pieces, and wills. Thousand of documents were produced, almost all of which served to preserve indigenous ways of doing things. But what provoked record keeping on such a grand scale? At what point did pre-contact sacred writing become utilitarian and quotidian? Were their texts documentaries, a form of boosterism, ... Read more
The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. Their accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises, tribute accounts, theatre pieces, and wills. Thousand of documents were produced, almost all of which served to preserve indigenous ways of doing things. But what provoked record keeping on such a grand scale? At what point did pre-contact sacred writing become utilitarian and quotidian? Were their texts documentaries, a form of boosterism, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845192990
SKU
V9781845192990
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About Susan Schroeder (Ed.)
Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and articles about intellectualism, religion, resistance, society, politics, and women in colonial Nahua Mesoamerica.
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