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  • Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World

    From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century

    by Justyna Olko ...
    This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Attributes of rank carried profound symbolic meaning, encoding subtle messages about political and social status, ethnic and gender ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past

    Colonial Nahua and Quechua Elites in Their Own Words

    Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past is a critical, annotated anthology of indigenous-authored texts, including the Nahua, Quechua, and Spanish originals, through which native peoples and Spaniards were able to convey their own perspectives on Spanish colonial order. It is the first volume to bring together native testimonies from two different areas of Spanish expansion in the Americas to ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Living with Nature, Cherishing Language

    Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History

    Edited by Justyna Olko, Cynthia Radding ...
    This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and ... Read more

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  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego

    The Historical Evidence

    Series series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    In Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego, Eduardo Chávez presents the most important points of the Great Guadalupan Event: the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, a recently converted indigenous man, in Mexico. Through a utilization of the numerous historical documents and investigations of this event, Chávez details the reality of what occurred in the cold winter of 1531. As ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Building Yanhuitlan

    Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500

    Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing structure—a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery complex in the village of Yanhuitlan.For ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Annals of Native America

    How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive

    For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. Between them, they ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • A Culture of Stone

    Inka Perspectives on Rock

    by Carolyn Dean ...
    A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Power of Huacas

    Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

    Based on extensive archival research, The Power of Huacas is the first book to take account of the reciprocal effects of religious colonization as they impacted Andean populations and, simultaneously, dramatically changed the culture and beliefs of Spanish Christians.Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion, 2015The ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Spectacular Wealth

    The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns

    by Lisa Voigt ...
    Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD