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Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
When the Spanish colonized the Americas, they brought many cultural beliefs and practices with them, not the least of which involved death and dying. The essays in this volume explore the resulting intersections of cultures through recent scholarship related to death and dying in colonial Spanish America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The authors address such important questions as: What were the relationships between the worlds of the living and the dead? How were these relationships sustained not just through religious dogma and rituals but also through everyday practices? How was unnatural death defined within different population strata? How did demo-graphic and cultural...
Trail of Footprints
Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of one hundred, largely unpublished, maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries made in the southern region of Oaxaca, anchors an analysis of the way ethnically diverse societies produced knowledge in colonial settings. Mapmaking, proposes Hidalgo, formed part of an epistemological shift tied to the negotiation of land and natural resources between the region’s Spanish, Indian, and mixed-race communities. The craft of making maps drew from social memory, indigenous and European conceptions of space and ritual, and Spanish legal practic...
From Idols to Antiquity
From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant cultural as well as political independence, and the museum was expected to become a repository of national objects whose stories would provide the nation with an identity and teach its people to become citizens. Miruna Achim reconstructs the early years of the museum as an emerging object shaped by the logic and goals of historical actors who soon found themselves ...
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A History of Mexican Literature
A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of Mexican literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mariano Azuela, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in Mexican literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of Mexican writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.
Historias de la época colonial y del siglo XIX en México
Esta obra presenta distintos escenarios ocurridos dentro de los 300 años del virreinato y el siglo XIX en México: la niñez en su preparación para la buena muerte, el sistema político representativo; los barrios de la Ciudad de México y su gente; los antiguos poblados aledaños a la capital del país convertidos ahora en colonias; algunos personajes del campo y de la ciudad; la criminalidad femenina, así como representacioens históricas y artísticas, a veces prohibidas, y elementos arquitectónicos.
Lenguas en el México novohispano y decimonónico
El presente volumen contiene una selección de diez trabajos presentados en el II Encuentro de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historiografía Lingüística, celebrado del 4 al 8 de septiembre de 2006. Los trabajos son representativos del interés que, entre los estudiosos de esta rama de la lingüística, despierta el conocimiento de obras y autores, los cuales abordan las lenguas indígenas de México en diferentes momentos de su devenir histórico. Temporalmente centrados en los siglo XVI a XIX.
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