Native Traditions in the Postconquest World

by Boone, Elizabeth Hill; Cummins, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780884022398
• ISBN10: 0884022390
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service

Summary

"Important anthology marking, but not celebrating, the Columbian Quincentenary, directing attention to indigenous cultural responses to the Spanish intrusion in Mexico and Peru, utilizing as much as possible native documents and sources, and exploring mentalities. While we can benefit from the analysis and methodology in all contributions to this volume, items certain to interest Mesoamericanists include: Hill Boone, 'Introduction,' for the volume's orientation; Laiou, 'The Many Faces of Medieval Colonization,' for background, analysis of colonization as process, and its multiple forms; Lockhart, 'Three Experiences of Culture Contact: Nahua, Maya, and Quechua,' for special attention to language change as a reflection of broader cultural evolution in key areas; Hill Boone, 'Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico,' for an examination of the endurance of these forms in 16th-century Nahua culture; Wood, 'The Social vs. Legal Context of Nahuatl Tâitulos,' for an examination of community self-representation in native manuscripts and pictorials in the eighteenth century; Gillespie, 'The Triple Alliance: A Postconquest Tradition,' for an explanation of the colonial manipulation of the symbolic triadic organization for a new historical tradition; Burkhart, 'Pious Performances: Christian Pageantry and Native Identity in Early Colonial Mexico,' for a study of the Nahuas' reshaping of Christian ritual; Karttunen, 'Indigenous Writing as a Vehicle of Postconquest Continuity and Change in Mesoamerica,' for an examination of Nahua and Maya writing traditions into the present, including evidence of women's lesser but possibly significant role; and, Cummins, 'Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: Commentary,' for concluding reflections onthe interrelated elements of text (written, performative, visual, auratic, and so on), image, discourse, language, traditions, identity, and colonialism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
ELIZABETH HILL BOONE
COLONIZATION AND CULTURE CHANGE	13	(42)
The Many Faces of Medieval Colonization	13	(18)
ANGELIKI E. LAIOU
Three Experiences of Culture Contact: Nahua, Maya, and Quechua	31	(24)
JAMES LOCKHART
CONFRONTATION OF VALUES	55	(36)
Litigation over the Rights of "Natural Lords" in Early Colonial Courts in the Andes	55	(8)
JOHN V. MURRA
Family Values in Seventeenth-Century Peru	63	(28)
IRENE SILVERBLATT
PRESENTATIONS OF SELF-IMAGE IN OBJECTS, IMAGES, AND ALPHABETIC TEXTS	91	(142)
Let Me See! Reading Is for Them: Colonial Andean Images and Objects "como es costumbre tener los caciques Senores"	91	(58)
TOM CUMMINS
Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico	149	(52)
ELIZABETH HILL BOONE
The Social vs. Legal Context of Nahuatl Titulos	201	(32)
STEPHANIE WOOD
INTERPRETING THE PAST FOR THE PRESENT	233	(112)
The Aztec Triple Alliance: A Postconquest Tradition	233	(32)
SUSAN D. GILLESPIE
Collquiri's Dam: The Colonial Re-Voicing of an Appeal to the Archaic	265	(30)
FRANK SALOMON
Time, Space, and Ritual Action: The Inka and Christian Calendars in Early Colonial Peru	295	(50)
SABINE MACCORMACK
RELIGIOUS CONTEST, NEGOTIATION, AND CONVERGENCE	345	(38)
Pachacamac and El Senor de los Milagros	345	(16)
MARIA ROSTWOROWSKI
Pious Performances: Christian Pageantry and Native Identity in Early Colonial Mexico	361	(22)
LOUISE M. BURKHART
LANGUAGE AS THE ARMATURE OF IDENTITY	383	(66)
A Nation Surrounded	383	(38)
BRUCE MANNHEIM
Indigenous Writing as a Vehicle of Postconquest Continuity and Change in Mesoamerica	421	(28)
FRANCES KARTTUNEN
SYNTHETIC COMMENTS	449	(14)
Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: Commentary	449	(14)
TOM CUMMINS
INDEX	463