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Building Yanhuitlan - Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500 (Hardcover)
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Building Yanhuitlan - Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500 (Hardcover)
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Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art
historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a
compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its
distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish?
In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing structure - a
sixteenth-century Dominican monastery complex in the village of
Yanhuitlan. For centuries, the buildings have served a central role
in the village landscape and the lives of its people. Ostensibly,
there is nothing indigenous about the complex or the artwork
inside. So how does such a place fit within the Mixteca, where
Frassani acknowledges a continuity of indigenous culture in the
towns, plazas, markets, churches, and rural surroundings? To
understand the monastery complex - and Mesoamerican cultural
heritage in the wake of conquest - Frassani calls for a shifting
definition of indigenous identity, one that acknowledges the ways
indigenous peoples actively took part in the development of
post-conquest Mesoamerican culture. Frassani relates the history of
Yanhuitlan by examining the rich store of art and architecture in
the town's church and convent, bolstering her account with more
than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations. She presents the
first two centuries of the church complex's construction works,
maintenance, and decorations as the product of cultural, political,
and economic negotiation between Mixtec caciques, Spanish
encomenderos, and Dominican friars. The author then ties the
village's present-day religious celebrations to the colonial past,
and traces the cult of specific images through these celebrations'
history. Cultural artifacts, Frassani demonstrates, do not need
pre-Hispanic origins to be considered genuinely Mesoamerican - the
processes attached to their appropriation are more meaningful than
their having any pre-Hispanic past. Based on original and
unpublished documents and punctuated with stunning photography,
Building Yanhuitlan combines archival and ethnographic work with
visual analysis to make an innovative statement regarding artistic
forms and to tell the story of a remarkable community.
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