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Of Things of the Indies - Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History (Paperback)
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Of Things of the Indies - Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History (Paperback)
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This volume offers an illuminating overview of the work of a
pioneering and highly distinguished scholar of early Latin American
social and cultural history and philology. Known for the
originality of his approach and the variety of his research
interests, James Lockhart has gone from studying social history
using career pattern methods to an ethnohistory emphasizing
indigenous-language philology, all the while stressing general
interpretation, synthesis, historiography, and the development of
analytical concepts and categories. The present volume illustrates
all these interests and activities within the covers of a single
book; the reader can see not only common threads running through
the individual essays, but also the close relationships between
types of scholarship all too often seen as utterly distinct.
The "old and new" of the subtitle is meant literally; the first
piece was written in 1968, the last in 1998. Some are already well
known, while others have appeared in quite obscure venues. Four of
the twelve chapters are published here for the first time. They
elucidate the reading of texts for social and cultural purposes,
expound on aspects of Nahuatl historical linguistics, discuss the
problematic nature of the concept of resistance in Western
Hemisphere culture encounters, and review the author's experience
with the scholarly disciplines, which involves a certain amount of
intellectual autobiography.
The tone of the volume is generally colloquial, for nine chapters
originated as lectures and attempt to interpret for a wider
audience the author's research as represented in his monographic
books. Previously published pieces have been revised or expanded to
a greater or lesser degree. Their subjects include the transition
from encomienda to hacienda, the evolution of social history in
Latin American studies, the economic rationality of Spanish
procedures, the changing role of merchants in Spanish America, the
editing of Nahuatl texts, the author's concept of Double Mistaken
Identity, and the process of cultural contact in three major Latin
American areas.
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