Conquered conquistadors : the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan : a Nahua vision of the conquest of Guatemala / Florine Asselbergs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asselbergs, Florine G. L. (Florine Gabriëlle Laurence), 1975-

Series:

Mesoamerican worlds.

Mesoamerican worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lienzo de Quauhquechollan.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Guatemala.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl.

Aztecs--History--Sources.

Aztecs.

Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.

Mexico.

Guatemala--History--To 1500.

Guatemala.

Guatemala--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.

Physical Description:

xv, 372 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

New ed., Illustrated ed.

Other Title:

Title on map/poster : Lienzo de Quauhquechollan

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Conquered Conquistadors, Florine Asselbergs reveals that a large pictorial map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, long thought to represent a series of battles in central Mexico, was actually painted in the 1530s by Quauhquecholteca warriors to document their invasion of Guatemala alongside the Spanish and to proclaim themselves as conquistadors. This painting is the oldest known map of Guatemala and a rare document of the experiences of indigenous conquistadors. The people of the Nahua community of Quauhquechollan (present-day San Martín Huaquechula), in central Mexico, allied with Cortés during the Spanish-Aztec War and were assigned to the Spanish conquistador Jorge de Alvarado. De Alvarado and his allies, including the Quauhquecholteca and thousands of other indigenous warriors, set off for Guatemala in 1527 to start a campaign against the Maya. The few Quauhquecholteca who lived to tell the story recorded their travels and eventual victory on the huge cloth map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan. Conquered Conquistadors, published in a European edition in 2004, overturned conventional views of the European conquest of indigenous cultures. American historians and anthropologists will relish this new edition and Asselbergs's astute analysis, which includes context, interpretation, and comparison with other pictographic accounts of the "Spanish" conquest. This heavily illustrated edition includes an insert reproduction of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: Theory and Methodology

3: Quauhquechollan

4: The Lienzo de Quauhquichollan: The Document

5: The "Spanish" Conquest of Guatemala

6: Basic Pictographic Conventions used in the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan

7: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: A Reading

8: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: Interpretation

9: Other Pictographic Accounts of the "Spanish" Conquest

10: Conclusions

11: Notes

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Appendix 6

Appendix 7

Appendix 8

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes folded col. poster of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan (48 x 63 cm.) in pocket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-359) and index.

ISBN:

9780870819926

0870819925

OCLC:

646835476