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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465897403321

Autore

Brian Amber <1970->

Titolo

Alva Ixtlilxochitl's native archive and the circulation of knowledge in colonial Mexico / / Amber Brian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nashville : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8265-2099-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

972/.01

Soggetti

Indians of Mexico

Indians of Mexico - Historiography

Electronic books.

Mexico History To 1519 Historiography

Mexico History Conquest, 1519-1540 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : giving and receiving -- Chapter 1. Creoles, mestizos, and the native archive -- Chapter 2. Land, law, and lineage : the cacicazgo of San Juan Teotihuacan -- Chapter 3. Configuring native knowledge : seventeenth-century mestizo -- Chapter 4. Circulating native knowledge : seventeenth-century creole -- Epilogue : native knowledge and colonial networks.

Sommario/riassunto

"Focusing on the production and circulation of native knowledge through collaborations between indigenous, mestizo, and creole intellectuals in colonial Mexico, this book proceeds through an in-depth case study of the exchange of native materials between the family of don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochtil and don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora"--Provided by publisher.