Indigenous Intellectuals
Subtitle: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes
By: Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis, editors
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780822356479; 9780822356608
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Civilization; Intellectual life; Indigenous peoples
Description: "Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and art history reveal new facets of the colonial experience by emphasizing the wide range of indigenous individuals who used knowledge to subvert, undermine, critique, and sometimes enhance colonial power. Seeking to understand the political, social, and cultural impact of indigenous intellectuals, the contributors examine both ideological and practical forms of knowledge. Their understanding of "intellectual" encompasses the creators of written texts and visual representations, functionaries and bureaucrats who interacted with colonial agents and institutions, and organic intellectuals."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Indigenous functionaries: ethnicity, networks, and institutions; title: Indigenous intellectuals in Andean colonial cities / Gabriela Ramos; title: The brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Bartolomé de Alva: two "native" intellectuals of seventeenth-century Mexico / John Frederick Schwaller; title: Trained by jesuits: indigenous letrados in seventeenth-century Peru / John Charles; title: Making law intelligible: networks of translation in mid-colonial Oaxaca / Yanna Yannakakis; title: Native historians: sources, frameworks, and authorship; title: Chimalpahin and why women matter in history / Susan Schroeder; title: The concept of the Nahua historian: Don Juan Zapata's scholarly tradition / Camilla Townsend; title: Cristóbal Choquecasa and the making of the Huarochirí manuscript / Alan Durston; title: Forms of knowledge: genealogies, maps, and archives; title: Indigenous genealogies: lineage, history, and the colonial pact in central Mexico and Peru / María Elena Martínez; title: The dawning places: celestially defined land maps, títulos primordiales, and indigenous statements of territorial possession in early colonial Mexico / Eleanor Wake; title: The quilcaycamayoq: making indigenous archives in colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns.