The Conquest All Over Again by Susan Schroeder

The Conquest All Over Again by Susan Schroeder

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.

Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and articles about intellectualism, religion, resistance, society, politics, and women in colonial Nahua Mesoamerica.

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ISBN 13	9781845194758
ISBN 10	1845194756
Titel	The Conquest All Over Again
Autor	Susan Schroeder
Serie	First Nations And The Colonial Encounter
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-03-23
Seitenanzahl	273
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