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Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California
Lisbeth Haas
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Description for Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California
Paperback. Presents a thorough excavation of the history of the Indigenous inhabitants of California in the late 18th and 19th centuries and their interaction with the Spanish occupiers and Mexican society. This book gives portrayal of how native painters worked to incorporate their cultural iconography in colonial painting. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 b/w photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseno, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, ... Read more
Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseno, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280625
SKU
V9780520280625
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About Lisbeth Haas
Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseno Language and Colonial History, c. 1840 (UC Press, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769--1936 (UC Press, 1995).
Reviews for Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California
"Effectively succeeds in giving voice and vision to the indigenous histories of early California." CHOICE "Creative insights into the complex world of Indian and colonial relations that all students of American history should value."
Albert L. Hurtado American Historical Review
Albert L. Hurtado American Historical Review