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Beyond Cortés and Montezuma
Beyond Cortés and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period. A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and the US with varied methodological backgrounds—linguistics, history, art history, and cultural studies—query the “conquest,” or rather conquista, of Mexico through a series of case studies that interrogate how historians, especially in Europe, Mexico, and the US, understand and interact with this concept. They consider the language used to encapsulate the event in Nahuatl documents from the colonial period, how the Spanish veterans led the transition to settlement in taking land for themselves, and the legacy of the conquista in discrimination against Tlaxcallans in modern Mexico. Beyond Cortés and Montezuma is a compilation of nuanced reflections on the language, narratives, and memories of the conquista that balances the crimes of Spanish colonialism and asymmetries of power that existed within early New Spain with the abilities of Native peoples to resist, negotiate, and survive.
The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective
Covering the precolonial period to the present, The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of Latin American law, revealing the vast commonalities and differences within the continent as well as entanglements with countries around the world. Bringing together experts from across the Americas and Europe, this innovative treatment of Latin American law explains how law operated in different historical settings, introduces a wide variety of sources of legal knowledge, and focuses on law as a social practice. It sheds light on topics such as the history of indigenous peoples' laws, the significance of religion in law, Latin American independences, national constitutions and codifications, human rights, dictatorships, transitional justice and legal pluralism, and a broad panorama of key aspects of the history of statehood and law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting
The aspiration of an Atlas is to cover the whole world, by compiling cartographical material representing territories from across the five continents. This book intends to contribute to that ideally comprehensive, yet always unfinished, Atlas with pieces gathered from all of the Earth’s regions. However, its focus is not so much of a geographical nature (although maps and geographical reflections are not absent in its pages), but of a historical-analytical one. As such, the Atlas engages in the historical analysis of interpreters (of both language and cultures) in multiple interpreting settings and places, including in zones which are less frequently studied in specialized literature, in d...
The Fifteenth Month
The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated with a different set of rituals. Panquetzaliztli, the fifteenth month, dedicated to the national god Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird on the Left), was significant for its proximity to the winter solstice, and for the fact that it marked the beginning of the season of warfare. In The Fifteenth Month, John F. Schwaller offers a detailed look at how the celebrations of Panquetzaliztli changed over time and what these changes reveal about the history of the Aztecs. Drawing on a variety of sources, Schwaller deduces that prior to the rise of the Mexica in...
The Organization of Ancient Economies
This is the first book written that examines ancient and premodern economies from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.
"Another Jerusalem"
In ‘Another Jerusalem’: Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568) José-Juan López-Portillo offers a new approach to understanding why the most densely populated and culturally sophisticated regions of Mesoamerica accepted the authority of Spanish viceroys. By focusing on the routines and practices of quotidian political life in New Spain, and the ideological affinities that bound indigenous and non-indigenous political communities to the viceregal regime, López Portillo discloses the formation of new loyalties, interests and identities particular to New Spain. Rather than the traditional view of European colonial domination over a demoralized indigenous population, New Spain now appears as Mexico City’s sub-empire: an aggregate of the Habsburg ‘composite monarchy’. "Embellished with wonderful illustrations, this work draws upon extensive secondary and primary sources. Scholars studying Spain's America will find it a thoughtful addition to historical literature on 16th-century New Spain." - M. A. Burkholder, University of Missouri - St. Louis, in: CHOICE, July 2018 Vol. 55 No. 11
De márgenes, barrios y suburbios en la ciudad de México, siglos XVI-XXI
A través de un complejo y rico recorrido historiográfico por la génesis de la ciudad, poco más de 9 km cuadrados que durante siglos contuvieron el casco y sus barrios primigenios, el presente libro indaga sobre el vínculo entre la fundación de la urbe mexicana, su existencia virreinal y su posterior crecimiento.
Perspectivas traductológicas desde América Latina
Los textos que componen este volumen son producto del Tercer Congreso Bienal de la Red Latinoamericana de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación (RELAETI) que organizó la Universidad Católica de Temuco (Chile) en octubre 2020, dando continuidad a los fructíferos congresos de México (Zacatecas, 2018) y Argentina (Córdoba, 2020), cuyos trabajos ha acogido también esta casa editorial. Las investigaciones que aquí se presentan cubren distintas épocas y lugares del continente hispanoamericano, y adoptan enfoques diversos: lingüístico-discursivo, histórico, social, filosófico, que atañen tanto a la traducción escrita como a la interpretación. Perspectivas traductológicas desde América Latina se aproxima a lo que podría caracterizar una traductología latinoamericana, menos centrada en las búsquedas de carácter teórico y más interesadas en explorar las temáticas que marcaron y siguen marcando la convivencia, a ratos amable y no pocas veces conflictiva, entre las distintas comunidades y lenguas del continente.
Poder local, poder global en América Latina
Este libro es resultado del XI Encuentro-Debate América Latina Ayer y Hoy que la sección americanista del Departamento de Antropología Cultural, Historia de América y África de la Universidad de Barcelona organizó en noviembre de 2007. La finalidad de encuentros como éste, que vienen desarrollándose desde el año 1987, ha sido siempre intercambiar conocimientos con colegas americanistas tanto de España como del exterior. Se reflexiona en torno a la construcción del poder, tanto en clave local como global, para entender las realidades presente y pasada de América Latina a partir del estudio de diversos grupos sociales tales como las mujeres, las élites indígenas, los negros y esclavos, los sectores empresariales y políticos, entre otros.
Acerca de la (des)memoria y su construcción en Mesoamérica y Andes
Los estudios aquí reunidos se fundamentan en planteamientos metodológicos rigurosos y en una base empírica rica y vasta para el escrutinio de aspectos fundamentales: los usos instrumentales del pasado que responden a lógicas, intereses y centros de poder asimétricos y disímiles en las culturas de Mesoamérica y los Andes. En tan amplio espectro, desde luego, se consideran igualmente los “lugares” donde se alojaba la memoria y sus formas de representación entre estos pueblos indígenas. Todo en aras de abrir nuevos horizontes de comprensión y dar continuidad al debate. Así, aunque los textos presentados difieren en sus marcos temporales, se unifican y articulan a partir de ejes o problemas comunes de discusión, que llevan a los autores a abordar los problemas de la veracidad, del registro, de la manipulación, del mito y de la inscripción del pasado.
