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This cluster of papers explores the visual culture, indigenous history, and cultural exchange in Colonial Spanish America. It delves into topics such as ethnic identities, religious practices, language policy, and legal cultures, offering insights into the complex dynamics of the era. The papers also touch on postcolonial studies and Mesoamerican voices, shedding light on the lasting impact of this historical period.

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Colonial Spanish America; Visual Culture; Indigenous History; Cultural Exchange; Ethnic Identities; Religious Practices; Language Policy; Legal Cultures; Mesoamerican Voices; Postcolonial Studies

1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus

2006-01-01

Richard Feinberg , Carl Mann

Researches into the early history of mankind and the development of civilization.

1878-01-01

Edward B. Tylor

In studying the phenomena of knowledge and art, religion and mythology, law and custom, and the rest of the complex whole which we call Civilization, it is not enough to … In studying the phenomena of knowledge and art, religion and mythology, law and custom, and the rest of the complex whole which we call Civilization, it is not enough to have in view the more advanced races, and to know their history so far as direct records have preserved it for us.The explanation of the state of things in which we live has often to be sought in the condition of rude and early tribes; and without a knowledge of this to guide us, we may miss the meaning even of familiar thoughts and practices.To take a trivial instance, the statement is true enough as it stands, that the women of modern

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The power of prestige: competitive generosity and the emergence of rank societies in lowland Mesoamerica

1994-01-27

John E. Clark , Michael Blake

Explanations of the origins of institutionalized social inequality and political privilege must resolve the central paradox of political life – why people cooperate with their own subordination and exploitation in … Explanations of the origins of institutionalized social inequality and political privilege must resolve the central paradox of political life – why people cooperate with their own subordination and exploitation in noncoercive circumstances (Godelier 1986:13). In the following pages we address this paradox for an archaeological case from Mesoamerica.

Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era.

1995-10-01

Mary Baine Campbell , Stuart B. Schwartz

Preface Introduction Part I. European Visions of Others in the Late Middle Ages: 1. The outer world of the European middle ages Seymour Phillips 2. Cultural conflicts in medieval world … Preface Introduction Part I. European Visions of Others in the Late Middle Ages: 1. The outer world of the European middle ages Seymour Phillips 2. Cultural conflicts in medieval world maps John B. Friedman 3. Spain circa 1492: social values and structures Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada 4. The conquests of the Canary Islands Eduardo Aznar Vallejo 5. Tales of distinction: European ethnography and the Caribbean Peter Hulme Part II. Europeans in the Vision of Other Peoples 6. Persian perceptions of Mongols and Europeans David Morgan 7. Sightings: initial Nahua reactions to Spanish culture James Lockhart 8. Dialogues of the deaf: Europeans on the Atlantic Coast of Africa Wyatt MacGaffey 9. Early Southeast Asian categorizations of Europeans Anthony Reid 10. Beyond the Cape: the Portuguese encounter with the Peoples of South Asia Chandra Richard de Silva 11. The 'Indianness' of Iberia and changing Japanese iconographies of Other Ronald P. Toby Part III. Adjustments to Encounter: 12. Essay on objects: interpretations of distance made tangible Mary W. Helms 13. The indigenous ethnographer: the indio ladino as historian Rolena Adorno 14. What to wear? Observation and participation by Jesuit missionaries in late Ming society Willard J. Peterson 15. Demerits and deadly sins: Jesuit moral tracts in late Ming China Ann Waltner Part IV. Observers Observed: Reflections on Encounters in the Age of Captain Cook: 16. Theatricality of observing and being observed: 'Eighteenth-century Europe' 'discovers' the ?-century Pacific Greg Dening 17. North America in the era of Captain Cook: three glimpses of Indian European contact in the age of the American Revolution Peter H. Wood 18. An accidental Australian tourist: or a feminist anthropologist at sea and on land Diane Bell 19. Circumscribing circumcision/uncircumcision: an essay amidst the history of difficult description James A. Boon Part V. Annotated Bibiliography.

The Postclassic Mesoamerican world

2003-09-01

Michael E. Smith , Frances F. Berdan

The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art

1986-11-01

Mark Graham , Linda Schele , Mary Ellen Miller

Chavin and the origins of Andean civilization

1993-05-01

Richard L. Burger

Of the six independent centres of civilization in world prehistory, probably the least well known is Chavin de Huantar, high up in the Andes, where South America's oldest complex culture … Of the six independent centres of civilization in world prehistory, probably the least well known is Chavin de Huantar, high up in the Andes, where South America's oldest complex culture arose during the first millennium BC and created its earliest known city. The Chavin style dominated Peruvian art and architecture for hundreds of years and influenced all that came after. But what was the exact nature of this style? How did Chavin civilization develop, and why did it eventually collapse? New answers are emerging after unprecedented discoveries made over the past two decades. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of these findings, including his own excavations at Chavin and elsewhere, Professor Burger argues controversially - that the first monumental architecture and great art in the Andes were created by economically egalitarian pre-Chavin societies. It is now known that such pre-state cultures built massive truncated pyramids as ancient as those of Old Kingdom Egypt. Chavin civilization represents a synthesis of these traditions, forged through the impact of long-distance trade and a new religious ideology. Accompanied by a wealth of photographs, drawings and maps, it will be of great interest to art historians as well as archaeologists and students of comparative civilization.

Pathways of memory and power: ethnography and history among an Andean people

1999-02-01

Thomas A. Abercrombie

Pathways of Memory and Power crosses the disciplinary boundary where anthropology and history meet, exploring the cultural frontier of the colonial and postcolonial Andes. Thomas A. Abercrombie uses his fieldwork … Pathways of Memory and Power crosses the disciplinary boundary where anthropology and history meet, exploring the cultural frontier of the colonial and postcolonial Andes. Thomas A. Abercrombie uses his fieldwork in the Aymara community of Santa Barbara de Culta, Bolivia, as a starting point for his ambitious examination of the relations between European forms of historical consciousness and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the past. Writing in an inviting first-person narrative style, Abercrombie confronts the ethics of fieldwork by comparing ethnographic experience to the power-laden contexts that produce historical sources.Making clear the early and deep intermingling of practices and world views among Spaniards and Andeans, Christians and non-Christians, Abercrombie critiques both the romanticist tendency to regard Andean culture as still separate from and resistant to European influences, and the melodramatic view that all indigenous practices have been obliterated by colonial and national elites. He challenges prejudices that, from colonial days to the present, have seen Andean historical knowledge only in mythic narratives or narratives of personal experience. Bringing an ethnographer s approach to historiography, he shows how complex Andean rituals that hybridize European and indigenous traditions such as libation dedications and llama sacrifices held on saints day festivals are in fact potent evidence of social memory in the community.

Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World

1998-10-01

Mauricio Tenorio , Deborah Poole

Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian and US archives, this text explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of … Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian and US archives, this text explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. The book traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late-18th to the early-20th century and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of racial difference. Whilst Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early-19th century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. The author suggests that this scientific or biological discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy.

Household and community in the Mesoamerican past

1989-02-01

Richard R. Wilk , Wendy Ann Ashmore

Foundations for an anthropology of the senses

1997-09-01

Constance Classen

Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands

1991-01-01

Linda A. Newson , Patrick Culbert , Don S. Rice

This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the … This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado in 1985. The focus is on quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish conquest. (ANNOTATION)

The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

1973-08-01

Donald B. Cooper

List of Illustrations Foreword (2002) Preface (2002) Foreword (1972) Preface (1972) The Contrasts Conquistador y Pestilencia Old World Plants and Animals in the New World The Early History of Syphilis: … List of Illustrations Foreword (2002) Preface (2002) Foreword (1972) Preface (1972) The Contrasts Conquistador y Pestilencia Old World Plants and Animals in the New World The Early History of Syphilis: A Reappraisal New World Foods and Old World Demography The Columbian Exchange Continues Bibliography (1972) Bibliography (2002) Index

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The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology

1984-01-01

Robert E. Bieder , Anthony Pagden

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The problem of recognition 2. The image of the barbarian 3. The theory of natural slavery 4. From nature's slaves to nature's children 5. The rhetorician … Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The problem of recognition 2. The image of the barbarian 3. The theory of natural slavery 4. From nature's slaves to nature's children 5. The rhetorician and the theologians: Juan Gines de Sepulveda and his dialogue, Democrates secundus 6. A programme for comparative ethnology (I) 7. A programme for comparative ethnology (II) 8. Joseph Francois Lafitau: comparative ethnology and the language of symbols Notes Bibliography Index.

Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism

1985-01-01

Brian M. Fagan , Geoffrey W. Conrad , Arthur A. Demarest

List of illustrations 1. Introduction 2. The Aztec imperial expansion 3. The Inca imperial expansion 4. Precolumbian imperialism: theories and evidence 5. Ideology and cultural evolution Bibliography Index. List of illustrations 1. Introduction 2. The Aztec imperial expansion 3. The Inca imperial expansion 4. Precolumbian imperialism: theories and evidence 5. Ideology and cultural evolution Bibliography Index.

Sensing the past : seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching in history

2007-01-01

Mark M. Smith

Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past? How have our senses affected history? How have the senses themselves changed? What role … Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past? How have our senses affected history? How have the senses themselves changed? What role have the senses played in the ways we discriminate? Exploring illuminating examples from antiquity to the twenty-first century, this lively, concise introduction to the essential, emerging field of sensory history presents a new way of looking at the past that takes the everyday, the average, and the banal as seriously as it takes the history of elites, the intellect, and the exceptional. Considering each of the five senses, Mark M. Smith explores diverse subjects: visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America; sound in nineteenth-century Australia and France; gender politics and touch in early modern Europe and in native America; 'race' and olfaction in the United States and scent in ancient Christianity; and, the role of taste in shaping national identity in modern China and early America.

The limits of racial domination: plebeian society in colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720

1994-11-01

Challenges the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as alienated and dominated by a desire to improve their status. This text argues that … Challenges the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as alienated and dominated by a desire to improve their status. This text argues that instead, social control by the Spanish rested on patron-client networks.

Handbook of South American Indians

1947-04-01

Donald D. Brand , Julian H. Steward

Este volumen, junto con el sexto, proximo a aparecer, constituyen el aporte de esta serie al estudio de algunos temas, con un caracter comparativo y geografico de las culturas indigenas … Este volumen, junto con el sexto, proximo a aparecer, constituyen el aporte de esta serie al estudio de algunos temas, con un caracter comparativo y geografico de las culturas indigenas de Sudamerica. Ambos volumenes tienen la importancia, segun aclara el editor, de que ademas de ser comparativos son mas teoricos que descriptivos, lo cual contrasta con los cuatro primeros tomos, en los cuales se describieron las culturas indigenas, historicas y prehistoricas, por tribus y zonas culturales. Steward tambien reconoce en el Prologo la contribucion que al mismo tipo de estudio comparativo y geografico han aportado los autores siguientes: Nordenskiold, en lo referente a la cultura material; y en la presente obra, Bennett (arquitectura e ingenieria), O'Neal (cesteria y tejido), Willey (ceramica), Root (metalurgia), Metraux (armas, guerra, canibalismo, trofeos humanos y algunos ritos), Kirchhoff y Lowie (organizacion social y politica) y Lowie (propiedad). Asimismo hace resaltar la importancia de los trabajos de: Kroeber, sobre arte indigena de Sudamerica; Rouse, referente a petroglifos; Cooper, sobre los juegos y el uso de estimulantes; y de Ackerknecht, acerca de practicas medicas. La Parte I contiene un resumen general sobre la cultura de las tribus indigenas de Sudamerica y capitulos acerca de: Arquitectura e ingenieria (habitaciones, mobiliario, estructuras religiosas, ingenieria) ; industria y tecnologia (en corteza, cesteria, tejido, ceramica, metalurgia, hule, armas, trampas, veneno para pesca, produccion de fuego); vida social y politica (entre los pueblos andinos, marginales y de la selva tropical; la propiedad, la couvade, los ritos de iniciacion entre los ninos, la guerra, el canibalismo y los trofeos humanos) ; las actividades esteticas y recreativas (arte, petroglifos, juegos, uso de estimulantes y narcoticos); la religion y el shamanismo; el conocimiento y la ensenanza. La Parte II se refiere exclusivamente a las misiones jesuitas en Sudamerica y esta a cargo de Alfred Metraux; la Parte HI cuyo autor es J. H. Steward trata de la poblacion nativa de Sudamerica desde el punto de vista demografico y la Parte IV es un Sumario interpretativo de las culturas sudamericanas, tambien de Julian H Steward.

The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule

1964-06-01

Charles Gibson

Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.

1982-11-01

Henry Kamen , Noble David Cook

Ancient History and the Antiquarian

1950-07-01

Arnaldo Momigliano

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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

1973-07-01

Gary S. Dunbar , Alfred W. Crosby

Nunamiut ethnoarchaeology

1979-06-01

Richard G. Klein

How Chiefs Come to Power

1997-08-01

Timothy Earle

By studying chiefdoms—kin-based societies in which a person’s place in a kinship system determines his or her social status and political position—this book addresses several fundamental questions concerning the nature … By studying chiefdoms—kin-based societies in which a person’s place in a kinship system determines his or her social status and political position—this book addresses several fundamental questions concerning the nature of political power and the evolution of sociopolitical complexity. In a chiefdom, the highest-status male (first son by the first wife) holds both authority and special access to economic, military, and ideological power, and others derive privilege from their positions in the chiefly hierarchy. A chiefdom is also a regional polity with institutional governance and some social stratification organizing a population of a few thousand to tens of thousands of people. The author argues that the fundamental dynamics of chiefdoms are essentially the same as those of states, and that the origin of states is to be understood in the emergence and development of chiefdoms. The history of chiefdoms documents the evolutionary trajectories that resulted, in some situations, in the institutionalization of broad-scale, politically centralized societies and, in others, in highly fragmented and unstable regions of competitive polities. Understanding the dynamics of chiefly society, the author asserts, offers an essential view into the historical background of the modern world. Three cases on which the author has conducted extensive field research are used to develop the book’s arguments—Denmark during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages (2300-1300 b.c. ), the high Andes of Peru from the early chiefdoms through the Inka conquest ( a.d. 500-1534), and Hawaii from early in its settlement to its incorporation in the world economy ( a.d. 800-1824). Rather than deal with each case separately, the author presents an integrated discussion around the different power sources. After summarizing the cultural history of the three societies over a thousand years, he considers the sources of chiefly power and how these sources were linked together. The ultimate aim of the book is to determine how chiefs came to power and the implications that contrasting paths to power had for the evolutionary trajectories of societies. It attributes particular importance to the way different power bases were bound together and grounded in the political economy.

The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries.

1993-11-01

Peter Gerhard , James Lockhart

Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640

1983-04-01

Frederick P. Bowser , Steve J. Stern

Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology

1980-01-01

Edwin S. Hall , Lewis R. Binford

When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away

1991-01-01

Ramón A. Gutiérrez

This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact … This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view.

Religion in the Andes

1991-12-31

Sabine MacCormack

Maya Society under Colonial Rule

1984-12-31

Nancy Farriss

Casta painting: images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico

2004-10-01

Ilona Katzew

The pictorial genre known as casta painting is one of the most compelling forms of artistic expression from colonial Mexico. Created as sets of consecutive images, the works portray racial … The pictorial genre known as casta painting is one of the most compelling forms of artistic expression from colonial Mexico. Created as sets of consecutive images, the works portray racial mixing among the main groups that inhabited the colony: Indians, Spaniards, and Africans. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ilona Katzew places casta paintings in their social and historical context, showing for the first time the ways in which the meanings of the paintings changed along with shifting colonial politics. The book examines how casta painting developed art historically, why race became the subject of a pictorial genre that spanned an entire century, who commissioned and collected the works, and what meanings the works held for contemporary audiences. Drawing on a range of previously unpublished archival and visual material, Katzew sheds new light on racial dynamics of eighteenth-century Mexico and on the construction of identity and self-image in the colonial world.

The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being and Becoming in a Pueblo Society.

1971-03-01

Bruce Cox , Alfonso Ortiz

This is a book that springs from richness. . . valuable not only for anthropologists and sociologists. . . the interested but unskilled layman will find a treasure trove as … This is a book that springs from richness. . . valuable not only for anthropologists and sociologists. . . the interested but unskilled layman will find a treasure trove as well. One thing seems certain. If this book does not become THE authority for the scholar, it will certainly never be ignored. Ortiz has done himself and his people proud. They are both worthy of the acclamation.-- The New Mexican

The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action

2000-01-01

Roderick J. McIntosh , Joseph A. Tainter , Susan Keech McIntosh

List of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on the Contributors1. Climate, History, and Human Action, by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech Mc Intosh1. Climate, Environment, and Human Action2. … List of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on the Contributors1. Climate, History, and Human Action, by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech Mc Intosh1. Climate, Environment, and Human Action2. Climate Variability During the Holocene: An Update, by Robert B. Dunbar3. Complexity Theory and Sociocultural Change in the American Southwest, by Jeffrey S. Dean2. Social Memory4. Environmental Perception and Human Responses in History and Prehistory, by Fekri Hassan5. Social Memory in Mande, by Roderick J. McIntosh6. Memories, Abstractions, and Conceptualization of Ecological Crisis in the Mande World, by Tereba Togola7. From Garden to Globe: Linking Time and Space with Meaning and Memory, by Carole L. Crumley8. Chinese Attitudes Toward Climate, by Cho-yun Hsu3. Cultural Responses to Climate Change9. Three Rivers: Subregional Variations in Earth System Impacts in the Southwestern Maya Lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champoton Watersheds), by Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan10. The Lowland Maya Civilization: Historical Consciousness and Environment, by David Freidel and Justine Shaw11. Social Responses to Climate Change Among the Chumash Indians of South Central California, by John R. Johnson4. History and Contemporary Affairs12. Global Change, History and Sustainability, by Joseph A. Tainter13. Land Degradation as a Socionatural Process, by S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research TeamIndex

Rethinking history and myth: indigenous South American perspectives on the past

1989-07-01

Jonathan D. Hill

El arte del chiéjaus: materialidad y agencias en artefactos ceremoniales pintados del pueblo yagán de Tierra del Fuego

2025-06-25

Dánae Fiore , Ana Butto , Agustín Acevedo +1 more | Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

Se presenta el análisis sistemático de 12 artefactos de madera con decoración pintada (tabletas, tablas-parante y ramas desbastadas), creados en la década de 1920 por el pueblo yagán de Tierra … Se presenta el análisis sistemático de 12 artefactos de madera con decoración pintada (tabletas, tablas-parante y ramas desbastadas), creados en la década de 1920 por el pueblo yagán de Tierra del Fuego y usados en una ceremonia de iniciación de ambos géneros llamada chiéjaus. Las piezas fueron reunidas por Martin Gusinde en sus trabajos de campo entre 1918-1924 y se encuentran en dos instituciones austríacas, el monasterio de Sankt Gabriel (Mödling) y el Weltmuseum Wien (Viena). Su registro se realizó mediante fotografías y una base de datos relacional de múltiples escalas con el propósito de buscar tendencias y contextualizarlos con información etnográfica visual y escrita de la ceremonia. Desde una perspectiva de la materialidad del arte se pudo inferir la existencia de un código visual subyacente a la decoración de los artefactos, la presencia de similitudes con otras formas de arte yagán (pintura corporal, rupestre, mobiliar óseo), y la existencia de huellas de las agencias de los/as productores/as. Los resultados sugieren diferentes niveles de experticia, así como distintos ritmos de trabajo y elecciones de diseño, todo ello enmarcado dentro de un código visual común.

Exploring the Concept of ‘Universal History’ in the Royal Commentaries of the Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616)

2025-06-24

Muriel Valcárcel Debouvry | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract This chapter delves into the concept of universal history in the Royal Commentaries of the Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Cuzco, 1539–Cordoba, 1616), with a specific focus … Abstract This chapter delves into the concept of universal history in the Royal Commentaries of the Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Cuzco, 1539–Cordoba, 1616), with a specific focus on the theory of divine accommodation. Within this theological framework, Inca Garcilaso argues that the Incas had already sensed (rastreado) the holy doctrine prior to the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and missionaries. He posits that the Incas were acquainted with the concept of a singular deity, suggesting a pre-existing familiarity with monotheism. Consequently, the historical narrative of the Incas is intricately intertwined with the divine paradigm of asynchronous human progression—a rhythm of evolution determined by God for each distinct people. The aim of this chapter is to unravel the intricacies of Inca Garcilaso’s historical thought, particularly in relation to the writing of universal history. Through the topos of historical providentialism, Garcilaso situates Inca civilization within a divine plan governing the evolution of the entire world. However, as a historian, he actively pursued the study of Inca relics (antiguallas) through antiquarian and philological investigations, shedding light on the unique facets of Inca religious beliefs. This duality in his approach suggests that Garcilaso recognized the significance of studying each civilization in its singularity, while also emphasizing the cultural and anthropological distinctions and connections that unite them.

Montcher, Fabien, Mercenaries of Knowledge. Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 333 págs. ISBN: 978-1-009-34048-9

2025-06-23

André Belo | Cuadernos de Historia Moderna

Nobles y Santos. Notas sobre Imaginarios de Santiago Apóstol en Localidades del Centro de México

2025-06-21

María Angélica Galicia Gordillo , Carlos Mejía Reyes | Unaciencia Revista de Estudios e Investigaciones

A partir de una escultura religiosa del Santo Santiago apóstol y sus representaciones en pinturas diversas en una región mexicana de la zona centro del país, se reconocen y analizan … A partir de una escultura religiosa del Santo Santiago apóstol y sus representaciones en pinturas diversas en una región mexicana de la zona centro del país, se reconocen y analizan las interpretaciones contemporáneas que se formulan desde las tradiciones culturales de grupos de raigambre indígena que le veneran y la postura dogmática religiosa del catolicismo de la etapa Virreinal. El método para ello se realiza en coordinación de dos procesos: trabajo etnográfico de largo plazo en etapas sacras de festejo y el estudio de las imágenes asociadas a la figura ubicada en su peana desde la perspectiva galarciana. Los hallazgos indican que la figura, así como sus imágenes asociadas representan, en la cosmovisión de los tres pueblos, el origen mismo de tales grupos en función de una coyuntura histórica trascendental en la historia del país a partir de estratificaciones socioculturales típicas de la definición sacralizada del proceso. Pero también referido a ciclos agrícolas inherentes a los procesos de producción de la zona.

The Friar and the Maya: Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan. By Matthew Restall, Amara Solari, John F. ChuchiakIV , and Traci Ardren. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023. xiii + 396 pp. $24.95 cloth.

2025-06-20

Josefrayn Sanchez-Perry | Church History

Kevin SEDEÑO-GUILLÉN, «Modernidades contra-natura. Crítica ilustrada, prensa periódica y cultura manuscrita en el siglo XVIII americano», Berlín, De Gruyter, 2024, 384 págs.

2025-06-20

Alberto Ortíz | Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII

Sin resumen. Sin resumen.

Las memorias del visitador, la relación picaresca y la ceguera colonial en «El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes» (1773): una lectura reparativa

2025-06-19

Robert Folger | Rilce Revista de Filología Hispánica

La mayoría de las interpretaciones de El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (1773 [1775/76]) están guiadas por una hermenéutica de la sospecha que busca desenmascarar la atribución espuria de la obra … La mayoría de las interpretaciones de El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (1773 [1775/76]) están guiadas por una hermenéutica de la sospecha que busca desenmascarar la atribución espuria de la obra al narrador Calixto Bustamante Carlos Inca alias Concolorcorvo como un engaño y atribuye la voz y el significado exclusivamente al «real» autor, el español Alonso Carrió de la Vandera. En un intento por no reproducir «paranoicamente» la epistemología y la ideología que dan forma al texto, una lectura reparativa (Sedgwick) del Lazarillo no rechaza ni descalifica al narrador, sino que reconoce su presencia y agencia. Esta lectura reparativa revela el punto ciego del dominio colonial y la imposibilidad de escribir una historia contrahegemónica del colonialismo en lugar de recuperar una voz subalterna.

The Sacred Plant of Santa Rosa, Nurse of the World: Narratives of Otomí Emotions from the Sierra Norte of Puebla

2025-06-16

Jorgelina Reinoso Niche | BRILL eBooks

Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico. By Ezekiel G. Stear. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025. Pp. 284. $100 cloth; $37.95 paper; $37.95 eBook.

2025-06-16

Josefrayn Sánchez‐Perry | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

1. The Royal Fifth and the Rights of Indians : Charles V and His Display of Mexican Material Culture

2025-06-14

J Adams | Amsterdam University Press eBooks

Jiménez Gómez, Ramón: Los ermitaños en Nueva España, siglos XVI y XVII. Sociedad, imaginario y vida religiosa. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2024. 368 pp.

2025-06-13

Antonio Rubial García | Revista Complutense de Historia de América

Graña Taborelli, Mario: Jurisdictional Battlefields. Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024, pp. 256.

2025-06-13

José Sovarzo | Revista Complutense de Historia de América

Prieto, Andrés I.: The Theologian and the Empire: A Biography of José de Acosta (1540–1600). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024. 412 pp.

2025-06-13

Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho | Revista Complutense de Historia de América

Mathilde Albisson: El proceso al libro: la censura inquisitorial en la España del siglo XVII. Madrid, Cátedra, 2024. 415 pp.

2025-06-12

Bárbara Santiago Medina | Documenta & Instrumenta - Documenta et Instrumenta

Exhibition review: ‘Más tierra de que antes se sabía. Hacia el quinto centenario del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú (1524–2024)’ at the Military Historical Museum of Seville, Spain. 22 November - 14 December 2024

2025-06-11

Álvaro Recio Mir | Journal of Historical Geography

Construyendo un imperio: la ocupación inca en Lunahuaná, valle medio de Cañete, Perú

2025-06-06

Manuel Calongos Curotto | Boletín de Arqueología PUCP

Los relatos sobre la conquista inca del valle de Cañete en las crónicas españolas brindan información sobre la presencia imperial en la región. Sin embargo, las evidencias arqueológicas disponibles para … Los relatos sobre la conquista inca del valle de Cañete en las crónicas españolas brindan información sobre la presencia imperial en la región. Sin embargo, las evidencias arqueológicas disponibles para comprender las dinámicas de dominación y control del Estado inca son aún escasas. Este reporte presenta los resultados de una prospección realizada en el valle medio de Cañete, donde se identificaron dos tipos de asentamientos principales: residencias de élite e instalaciones imperiales incas. Con base en ambos, se realizó un modelamiento territorial que permitió reconocer la presencia de dos formas de organización espacial coexistentes durante la ocupación inca del valle medio de Cañete. Proponemos que ambos sistemas formaron parte de la estrategia de consolidación del control inca en esta región.

Flesh and Blood of Huitzilopochtli

2025-06-01

León García Garagarza | Osiris

Das indigene Vermächtnis Nordamerikas

2025-06-01

Eberhard J. Wormer | Orthopädie & Rheuma

Mario Graña Taborelli, Jurisdictional Battlefields. Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions to Charcas in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2024, 238 pp. ISBN: 978-1-83553-709-1.

2025-05-31

Lía Guillermina Oliveto | Historia Agraria de América Latina

La Función de Combate de inteligencia durante la conquista del Tawantinsuyo

2025-05-31

| Revista Científica de la Escuela Superior de Guerra del Ejército

María Teresa Montes Lara and Vincent J. Pastro, Holy Presence, Holy Preaching: Santa María Tonantzin Guadalupe as Preacher and Community

2025-05-31

La Ronda D. Barnes | Homiletic

ASUNCIÓN LAVRIN, Y MARÍA CASILDA DEL POZO Y CALDERÓN. Autobiografía de una devota secular en Nueva España. San Antonio: UNAM San Antonio, Biblioteca Arte y Cultura, 2023. 423 pp.

2025-05-29

Carolina Yeveth Aguilar García | Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos

Reseña de Autobiografía de una devota secular en Nueva España de Asunción Lavrin y María Casilda del Pozo y Calderón. Reseña de Autobiografía de una devota secular en Nueva España de Asunción Lavrin y María Casilda del Pozo y Calderón.

Introduction

2025-05-28

Mesoamerican Magic-Medicine

2025-05-28

Contested sacred ground and mistaken idioms: pre -reducción and early reducción churches in South-central colonial Peru (AD 1536–1615)

2025-05-27

Frank Meddens , Kevin Lane , Cirilo Vivanco Pomacanchari +1 more

Labor, knowledge, and power: licensing technical innovations and enslaved labor in the colonial Andes

2025-05-27

Renée Raphael | History and Technology

Matteo Ricci, impulsor de la interculturalidad. Reflexiones desde la filosofía jurídico-política

2025-05-27

José-María Carabante | Isidorianum

Este artículo tiene como objetivo exponer las implicaciones espirituales, culturales y socio-políticas de la misión de los Jesuitas en China encabezada por Matteo Ricci. Además de situar en su contexto … Este artículo tiene como objetivo exponer las implicaciones espirituales, culturales y socio-políticas de la misión de los Jesuitas en China encabezada por Matteo Ricci. Además de situar en su contexto específico el proyecto de evangelización, se repasa la dimensión intelectual de Ricci y se ahonda en la estrategia de acomodación cultural ideada por Alessandro Valignano. Finalmente, se propone a Ricci como un modelo inspirador para facilitar el encuentro de culturas y religiones, en la medida en que era consciente de la universalidad de la fe y de la posibilidad de que esta se encarnara en diferentes culturales respetuosas con la tradición doctrinal de la Iglesia.

La influencia cultural de Diego de Pantoja en el diálogo entre Europa y China en los siglos XVI-XVII y el presente

2025-05-27

Jesús R. Folgado García | Isidorianum

El jesuita Diego de Pantoja puede ser considerado un puente bidireccional entre China y Occidente. De ello son testigo las lenguas china, portuguesa y española en la que escribió los … El jesuita Diego de Pantoja puede ser considerado un puente bidireccional entre China y Occidente. De ello son testigo las lenguas china, portuguesa y española en la que escribió los textos conservados en la actualidad. Jesuita en la primera etapa de evangelización en China —junto a Mateo Ricci— sus cartas —objeto de nuestro estudio— son testimonio del interés de presentar con realismo la vida cotidiana y cultural de China en Occidente frente a los estereotipos que en su época circulaban. A su vez, se convirtió en un embajador de la cultura y las ciencias europeas ante el emperador Wanli y sus mandarines en la Ciudad Prohibida de Beijing. Su tarea misional y científica en el Imperio del Centro lo han constituido en el siglo XXI en un referente para las relaciones del Papado y de Occidente con China.

The Emergence of a Large Community at Aguada Fénix and Its Legacy in Southeastern Mesoamerica

2025-05-27

Takeshi Inomata

‘La Capitulación de Ayacucho’ de Daniel Hernández: Del hecho al lienzo

2025-05-26

Irene Caridad Pastrana Roman

El presente artículo es un estudio que pretende reconstruir, a partir de las pocas fuentes disponibles, el proceso de creación del lienzo Capitulación de Ayacucho del artista nacional Daniel Hernández, … El presente artículo es un estudio que pretende reconstruir, a partir de las pocas fuentes disponibles, el proceso de creación del lienzo Capitulación de Ayacucho del artista nacional Daniel Hernández, en el marco de las conmemoraciones del Centenario de la Batalla de Ayacucho en 1924. Esta información va desde la representación del evento histórico y sus protagonistas hasta los antecedentes, las motivaciones e interpretaciones a la obra, así como a la conclusión de una serie de celebraciones en torno al centenario.

:A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

2025-05-23

Mark Thurner

The Nahua: Language and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Present. Edited by Galen Brokaw and Pablo García Loaeza

2025-05-23

Andrea Reed-Leal

The Nahua: Language and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Present. Edited by Galen Brokaw and Pablo García Loaeza. 2024. Denver: University Press of Colorado. 297pp. $32.95 (paperback), $29.95 … The Nahua: Language and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Present. Edited by Galen Brokaw and Pablo García Loaeza. 2024. Denver: University Press of Colorado. 297pp. $32.95 (paperback), $29.95 (e- book).

Serge Gruzinski, Quand les Indiens parlaient latin, colonisation alphabétique et métissage dans l’Amérique du xvi e siècle , Paris, Fayard, 2023, 320 p., ISBN-13 9782213720982

2025-05-22

Joel Schnapp | Réforme Humanisme Renaissance

Flavia Tudini, Governare una diocesi nella Monarchia spagnola. Gli arcivescovi di Lima, la Corona e Roma (1541-1606), Viella, Roma 2024, 313 pp.

2025-05-21

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa

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