The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social,
legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of
indigenous people. The colonizers’ intent was to homogenize these
cultures and make all of them “Indian.” The creation of those
new identities is the subject of the essays collected in Díaz’s
To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America. Focusing on central Mexico
and the Andes (colonial New Spain and Peru), the contributors
deepen scholarly knowledge of colonial history and literature,
emphasizing the different ways people became and lived their lives
as “indios.” While the construction of indigenous identities
has been a theme of considerable interest among Latin Americanists
since the early 1990s, this book presents new archival research and
interpretive thinking, offering new material and a new approach to
the subject to both scholars of colonial Peru and central Mexico.
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