The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish
conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.
Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in
native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on
disruptions to the Indian's memory, changes in their perception of
reality, the spread of the European idea of the supernatural and
the Spanish colonists' introduction of alphabetical script which
the Indians had to combine with their own traditional - oral and
pictorial - forms of communication.
Gruzinski discusses the Indians' often awkward initiation into
writing, their assimilation of Spanish culture, and their
subsequent reinterpretation of their own past and recovers the
changing Indian perceptions of the sacred and their 'absorption' of
elements from the Christian tradition.
The Conquest of Mexico is a major work of cultural history which
reconstructs a crucial episode in the European colonization of the
New World. It is also an important contribution to the study of the
relationship between memory, orality, images and writing in
history.
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