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Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800

Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500-1800

Villella, Peter B.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies, Book 101

General World HistoryMexican History

ISBN10: 1107129036
ISBN13: 9781107129030
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 25 2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
Modern Mexico derives many of its richest symbols of national heritage and identity from the Aztec legacy, even as it remains a predominantly Spanish-speaking, Christian society. This volume argues that the composite, neo-Aztec flavor of Mexican identity was, in part, a consequence of active efforts by indigenous elites after the Spanish conquest to grandfather ancestral rights into the colonial era. By emphasizing the antiquity of their claims before Spanish officials, native leaders extended the historical awareness of the colonial regime into the pre-Hispanic past, and therefore also the themes, emotional contours, and beginning points of what we today understand as 'Mexican history'. This emphasis on ancient roots, moreover, resonated with the patriotic longings of many creoles, descendants of Spaniards born in Mexico. Alienated by Spanish scorn, creoles associated with indigenous elites and studied their histories, thereby reinventing themselves as Mexico's new 'native' leadership and the heirs to its prestigious antiquity.

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