Indigenous Intellectuals : Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes / Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramos, Gabriela, editor.

Yannakakis, Yanna, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Intellectual life.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Civilization.

Indigenous peoples--Andes--Intellectual life.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Andes--Civilization.

Civilization.

Intellectual life.

Andes.

Physical Description:

xviii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Indigenous functionaries: ethnicity, networks, and institutions

Indigenous intellectuals in Andean colonial cities / Gabriela Ramos

The brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Bartolomé de Alva: two "native" intellectuals of seventeenth-century Mexico / John Frederick Schwaller

Trained by jesuits: indigenous letrados in seventeenth-century Peru / John Charles

Making law intelligible: networks of translation in mid-colonial Oaxaca / Yanna Yannakakis

Native historians: sources, frameworks, and authorship

Chimalpahin and why women matter in history / Susan Schroeder

The concept of the Nahua historian: Don Juan Zapata's scholarly tradition / Camilla Townsend

Cristóbal Choquecasa and the making of the Huarochirí manuscript / Alan Durston

Forms of knowledge: genealogies, maps, and archives

Indigenous genealogies: lineage, history, and the colonial pact in central Mexico and Peru / María Elena Martínez

The dawning places: celestially defined land maps, títulos primordiales, and indigenous statements of territorial possession in early colonial Mexico / Eleanor Wake

The quilcaycamayoq: making indigenous archives in colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822356479

0822356473

9780822356608

0822356600

OCLC:

859192267