Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd Through 4th October 1992Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins Legal Context of Nahuatl Titulos,' for an examination of community self-representation in native manuscripts and pictorials in the eighteenth century; Gillespie, 'The Triple Alliance: A Postconquest Tradition,' for an explanation of the colonial manipulation of the symbolic triadic organization for a new historical tradition; Burkhart, 'Pious Performances: Christian Pageantry and Native Identity in Early Colonial Mexico,' for a study of the Nahuas' reshaping of Christian ritual; Karttunen, 'Indigenous Writing as a Vehicle of Postconquest Continuity and Change in Mesoamerica,' for an examination of Nahua and Maya writing traditions into the present, including evidence of women's lesser but possibly significant role; and, Cummins, 'Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: Commentary,' for concluding reflections on the interrelated elements of text (written, performative, visual, auratic, and so on), image, discourse, language, traditions, identity, and colonialism". |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Many Faces of Medieval Colonization | 13 |
Nahua Maya and Quechua | 31 |
Litigation over the Rights of Natural Lords | 55 |
Family Values in SeventeenthCentury Peru | 63 |
Colonial Andean Images | 91 |
Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico | 149 |
The Social vs Legal Context of Nahuatl Títulos | 201 |
The Colonial ReVoicing of an Appeal | 265 |
The Inka and Christian Calendars | 295 |
RELIGIOUS CONTEST NEGOTIATION AND CONVERGENCE | 345 |
Christian Pageantry and Native Identity | 361 |
A Nation Surrounded | 383 |
Indigenous Writing as a Vehicle of Postconquest Continuity | 421 |
Commentary 449 | 451 |
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