Title: Circling the square
Description: "Examines 'the historical underpinnings of the sea change in the pictorial representation of calendrical time that took place in Hispanic Mesoamerica.' Discusses the deeply entrenched circular view of time in the West and the indigenous temporal representations in square or quadrangular form. The post-contact representation of time is thus an example of how fundamental native concepts were affected by the clash of cultures we call the Spanish conquest"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Calendar, Maya calendar, History, Mexico, history, conquest, 1519-1540, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, Central america, history, Indian calendar
Places: Central America, Mexico
Time periods: Spanish colony, 1540-1810, Conquest, 1519-1540, To 1821