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Title To be indio in colonial Spanish America / edited by Mónica Díaz
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations
Contents Artifact, artifice, and identity: nativist writing and scholarship on colonial Latin America and their legacies / Rolena Adorno -- Holograms of the voiceless: Indian slavery and servitude in early colonial Lima, Peru / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Mobilizing muleteer indigeneity in the markets of colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Indios Chinos in eighteenth-century Mexico / Tatiana Seijas -- Shifting identities: Mestizo historiography and the representation of Chichimecs / Amber Brian -- Voicing Mesoamerican identities on the roads of the empire: Alarcón and the Nahualtocaitl in seventeenth-century Mexico / Viviana Díaz Balsera -- The indigenous sacred as evil otherness in eary colonial Andes / Rocío Quispe-Agnoli -- Writing the Nahuatl canon: ethnicity, identity, and posterity according to Chimalpahin / Susan Schroeder -- Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxótl: a new native identity / Pablo García Loaeza -- Afterword / Yanna Yannakakis
Summary Focusing on central Mexico and the Andes (colonial New Spain and Peru), the contributors deepen scholarly knowledge of colonial history and literature, emphasizing the different ways people became and lived their lives as "indios" in this new study
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2017)
Subject Indians -- Ethnic identity
Indians of Mexico -- Ethnic identity
Indians of South America -- Peru -- Ethnic identity
Indians of Mexico -- History
Indians of South America -- Peru -- History
Caste -- America -- History
Indians -- Mixed descent.
Indians, Treatment of -- America
Racially mixed people -- America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Racially mixed people
Caste
Indians -- Ethnic identity
Indians -- Mixed descent
Indians of Mexico
Indians of Mexico -- Ethnic identity
Indians of South America
Indians of South America -- Ethnic identity
Indians, Treatment of
Intellectual life
Race relations
Spanish colonies
SUBJECT Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Intellectual life
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Race relations
Subject America
Peru
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Díaz, Mónica, 1974- editor
LC no. 2016015683
ISBN 9780826357748
0826357741