The Conquest All Over Again - Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism (Paperback)

The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and the fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives, often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. Their accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises, tribute accounts, theater pieces, and wills. Thousands of documents were produced, almost all of which served to preserve indigenous ways of doing things. But what provoked record keeping on such a grand scale? At what point did pre-contact sacred writing become utilitarian and quotidian? Were their text documentaries a form of boosterism, even ingenious intellectualism, or were they ultimately a literature of ruin? This volume - now in paperback - addresses key aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest and Spanish colonialism by examining what they themselves recorded and why they did so.

General

Imprint:	Sussex Academic Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	First Nations and the Colonial Encounter
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	June 2011
Editors:	Susan Schroeder
Dimensions:	152 x 229 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	273
ISBN-13:	978-1-84519-475-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84519-475-6
Barcode:	9781845194758

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