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Conquest All Over Again

Conquest All Over Again

Schroeder, Susan

Hardcover

Series: First Nations and the Colonial Encounter

Native American HistoryMexican HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1845192990
ISBN13: 9781845192990
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jun 15 2010
Pages: 273
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. Their accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises, tribute accounts, theatre pieces, and wills. Thousand of documents were produced, almost all of which served to preserve indigenous ways of doing things. But what provoked record keeping on such a grand scale? At what point did pre-contact sacred writing become utilitarian and quotidian? Were their texts documentaries, a form of boosterism, even ingenious intellectualism, or were they ultimately a literature of ruin? This volume seeks to address key aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest and Spanish colonialism by examining what they themselves recorded and why they did so.

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