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Autore |
Haas Lisbeth |
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Titolo |
Saints and citizens : Indigenous histories of colonial missions and Mexican California / / Lisbeth Haas |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-28062-8 |
0-520-95674-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America - Ethnic identity |
Indians of North America - Land tenure - California - History |
Indians of North America - Missions - California - History |
Indians, Treatment of - California |
Missions, Spanish - California - History |
California History To 1846 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Saints and Indigenous Citizens -- 1. Colonial Settlements on Indigenous Land -- 2. Becoming Indian in Colonial California -- 3. The Politics of the Image -- 4. "All the Horses Are in the Possession of the Indians": The Chumash War -- 5. "We Solicit Our Freedom": Citizenship and the Patria -- 6. Indigenous Landowners and Native Ingenuity on the Borderlands of Northern Mexico -- Conclusion: Indigenous Archives and Knowledge -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other |
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