Native Traditions in the Postconquest World
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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
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