Códice de Temascaltepec
Subtitle: gobierno indio y conflictos territoriales en el siglo XVI
By: [Gerardo González Reyes, coordinador]
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Colección Mayor Estado de México. Patrimonio de un pueblo; Biblioteca mexiquense del bicentenario; Biblioteca mexiquense del bicentenario
Publisher: Gobierno del Estado de México, Consejo Editorial de la Administración Pública Estatal
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toluca de Lerdo, México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9786074950441
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Códice de Temascaltepec; Trials; Land tenure; Sources; Mazahua Indians; Matlatzinca Indians; Legal status, laws; History
Description: A major paleographic and iconographic analysis on an early colonial document (1566) from a criminal trial between two neighborhood ethnic groups in what is now the State of México. This legal dispute was integrated in a documental body of double nature: 12 plates that represent in the Pre-Columbian pictorial tradition with representations of the amount of the stolen and burned goods, its monetary value and the accusation of the plaintiffs. 72 additional folios (written on both sides) contain the statements, proofs and allegations. The combination of both versions: pictorial and written reflect the true motives behind the lawsuit between Temascaltepec and Malacatepec: the ethnic conflicts between matlatzincas and mazahuas resulting from colonial political and administrative reforms during the 16th century. The author offers a hypothesis stating that ancient conflicts between these two ethnic groups were reactivated when the viceregal government defied the limits in the new colonial jurisdiction against the former Pre-Columbian organization based in the ethnical-political entity of the altepetl. The original manuscript titled: "Pièces d' un Procès criminel (Temazcaltepec)" is part of the holdings of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France [Fonds Mexicain, no. 111].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285).
Table of contents: title: Primera Parte. Estudio introductorio; title: 1. Contenido del testimonio, hipótesissobre su naturaleza, proyección y estado actual de conocimiento; title: 2. Revisióndel contexto histórico que dio vida a los sucesos representados y narrados en lasmemorias de Temascaltepec contra Malacatepec; title: 3. Una lectura entre líneas de lostestimonios de Temascaltepec contra Malacatepec: la utopía de revivir el pasado frentea la adaptación de la normatividad colonial; title: 4. Reflexión final: lomultiétnico, el gobierno y la jurisdicción en el contexto colonial; title: Apéndice; title: Segunda Parte. Estudio icnográfico; title: 1. Descripción; title: 2. Contenido; title: 3. Análisis y codificación; title: 4. Reflexión final: latradición pictórica nativa en el contexto colonial; title: Apéndice; title: Tercera Parte. Reproducción facsmil del códice; title: Cuarta. Parte.Paleografía del expediente; title: Fuentes consultadas.