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Mapping Indigenous Land - Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain (Hardcover)
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Mapping Indigenous Land - Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain (Hardcover)
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Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial
administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than
two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the
allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de
tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, provinces, towns, and
places; they made note of markers and ownership, and, at times, the
extent and measurement of each field in a territory, along with the
names of those who worked it. With their corresponding case files,
these maps tell the stories of hundreds of natives and Spaniards
who engaged in legal proceedings either to request land, to oppose
a petition, or to negotiate its terms. Mapping Indigenous Land
explores how, as persuasive and rhetorical images, these maps did
more than simply record the disputed territories for lawsuits. They
also enabled indigenous communities - and sometimes Spanish
petitioners - to translate their ideas about contested spaces into
visual form; offered arguments for the defense of these spaces; and
in some cases even helped protect indigenous land against harmful
requests. Drawing on her own paleography and transcription of case
files, author Ana Pulido Rull shows how much these maps can tell us
about the artists who participated in the lawsuits and about
indigenous views of the contested lands. Considering the mapas de
mercedes de tierras as sites of cross-cultural communication
between natives and Spaniards, Pulido Rull also offers an analysis
of Medieval and Modern Castilian law, its application in colonial
New Spain, and the possibilities it opened for the native
population. An important contribution to the literature on Mexico's
indigenous cartography and colonial art, Pulido Rull's work
suggests new ways of understanding how colonial space itself was
contested, negotiated, and defined.
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