Native Traditions in the Postconquest World


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Front Matter and Contents

Introduction / Elizabeth Hill Boone

Colonization and Culture Change

The Many Faces of Medieval Colonization / Angeliki E. Laiou

Three Experiences of Culture Contact: Nahua, Maya, and Quechua / James Lockhart

Confrontation of Values

Litigation over the Rights of "Natural Lords" in Early Colonial Courts in the Andes / John V. Murra

Family Values in Seventeenth-Century Peru / Irene Silverblatt

Presentations of Self-Image in Objects, Images, and Alphabetic Texts

Let Me See! Reading Is for Them: Colonian Andean Images and Objects "como es costumbre tener los caciques Señores" / Tom Cummins

Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone

The Social vs. Legal Context of Nahuatl Títulos / Stephanie Wood

Interpreting the Past for the Present

The Aztec Triple Alliance: A Postconquest Tradition / Susan D. Gillespie

Collquiri's Dam: The Colonial Re-Voicing of an Appeal to the Archaic / Frank Salomon

Time, Space, and Ritual Action: The Inka and Christian Calendars in Early Colonial Peru / Sabine MacCormack

Religious Contest, Negotiation, and Convergence

Pachacamac and El Señor de los Milagros / María Rostworowski

Pious Performances: Christian Pagentry and Native Identity in Early Colonial Mexico / Louise M. Burkhart

Language as the Armature of Identity

A Nation Surrounded / Bruce Mannheim

Indigenous Writing as a Vehicle of Postconquest Continuity and Change in Mesoamerica / Franes Karttunen

Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: Commentary / Tom Cummins

Index

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