New world, first nations
Subtitle: Native peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under colonial rule
By: edited by David Cahill and Blanca Tovías.
Contributors: Cahill, David Patrick.; Tovías, Blanca.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- History.; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- History.; Indians of Mexico -- First contact with Europeans.; Indians of South America -- First contact with Europeans -- Andes Region.; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.; Andes Region -- History.
Description: The Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas dramatically transformed the lives of native peoples in Mesoamerica and the Andes. This revolutionary and multilayered process varied greatly in its intensity and timing from region to region, but in all cases radically changed indigenous societies, their values and beliefs. The encounter between native peoples and the Spanish conquistadors and later settlers was marked by violence and drastic, epidemic-driven population decline. This dislocatory phase gradually gave way to myriad forms of accommodation, resistance, and social, cultural and religious hybridity--the colonial heritage of Spanish America. The innovative essays in this volume compare the colonial experience of native peoples of the conquered Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations, from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. They highlight their creative responses to the challenges posed by colonial rule, its institutions, religion, and legal and economic systems. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays distil a generation of scholarship and suggest an agenda for future research. This book will be of great interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and postcolonialists. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a conference held in Oct. 2002 at the University of New South Wales.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: First nations between conquest and independence / David Cahill and Blanca Tovías; title: Writing two cultures : the meaning of "amoxtli" (book) in Nahua New Spain / Susan Schroeder; title: The cosmological bases of local power in the Andes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Susan E. Ramírez; title: Las mercedes que pedía para su salida : the Vilcabamba Inca and the Spanish state, 1539-1572 / Kerstin Nowack; title: Some avatars of death in New Spain's southeast / Elsa Malvido; title: Beyond the Indian/Ladino dichotomy : shifting identities in colonial and contemporary Chiapas, Mexico / Janine Gasco; title: Indigenous production and consumption of cotton in eighteenth-century Chiapas : re-evaluating the coercive practices of the reparto de efectos / Kevin Gosner; title: Recent studies on gender relations in colonial native Andean history / Nancy E. van Deusen; title: A liminal nobility : the Incas in the middle ground of late colonial Peru / David Cahill; title: A historical and cultural perspective on the 1814 revolution in Cuzco / Luis Miguel Glave; title: A nationalist movement without nationalism : the limits of imagined community in Mexico, 1810-1821 / Eric Van Young.