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Alva Ixtlilxochitl's native archive and the circulation of knowledge in colonial Mexico
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Alva Ixtlilxochitl's native archive and the circulation of knowledge in colonial Mexico / Amber Brian.
ISBN
9780826520975
0826520979
9780826520999
0826520995
Publication
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"Focusing on the production and circulation of native knowledge through collaborations between indigenous, mestizo, and creole intellectuals in colonial Mexico, this book proceeds through an in-depth case study of the exchange of native materials between the family of don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochtil and don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora"--Provided by publisher.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : giving and receiving
Chapter 1. Creoles, mestizos, and the native archive
Chapter 2. Land, law, and lineage : the cacicazgo of San Juan Teotihuacan
Chapter 3. Configuring native knowledge : seventeenth-century mestizo
Chapter 4. Circulating native knowledge : seventeenth-century creole
Epilogue : native knowledge and colonial networks.
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