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Book Brides of Christ

    Book Details:
  • Author : Asunción Lavrin
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2008-05-13
  • ISBN : 0804752834
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Brides of Christ written by Asunción Lavrin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico.

Book Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico

Download or read book Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico written by Robert H. Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns over native resistance to evangelization on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier (the frontier between sedentary and nomadic natives) prompted the Augustinian missionaries to use graphic visual images of hell to convince natives to embrace the new faith. The Augustinians believed that they were in a war against Satan.

Book Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post Conquest Mexico

Download or read book Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post Conquest Mexico written by M?aDom?uez Torres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, M?a Dom?uez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest' in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures; and that certain interconnections between martial, social and religious elements resonated with similar intensity among Mesoamericans and Europeans, creating indeed cultural bridges between these diverse communities. Multidisciplinary in approach, this study builds on scholarship in the fields of visual, literary and cultural studies to analyse the European and Mesoamerican content of the martial imagery fostered within the indigenous settlements of central Mexico, as well as the ways in which local communities and leaders appropriated, manipulated, modified and reinterpreted foreign visual codes. Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico draws on post-structuralist and post-colonial approaches to analyse the complex dynamics of identity formation in colonial communities.

Book Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants   No  5

Download or read book Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants No 5 written by Joseph Nelson Rose and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Plague of Sheep

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elinor G. K. Melville
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780521574488
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book A Plague of Sheep written by Elinor G. K. Melville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, this book is about the biological conquest of the New World.

Book Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post conquest Mexico

Download or read book Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post conquest Mexico written by Mónica Domínguez Torres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Mónica Domínguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest' in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures; and that certain interconnections between martial, social and religious elements resonated with similar intensity among Mesoamericans and Europeans, creating indeed cultural bridges between these diverse communities. Multidisciplinary in approach, this study builds on scholarship in the fields of visual, literary and cultural studies to analyse the European and Mesoamerican content of the martial imagery fostered within the indigenous settlements of central Mexico, as well as the ways in which local communities and leaders appropriated, manipulated, modified and reinterpreted foreign visual codes. Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico draws on post-structuralist and post-colonial approaches to analyse the complex dynamics of identity formation in colonial communities.

Book Communities on a Frontier in Conflict

Download or read book Communities on a Frontier in Conflict written by Robert H. Jackson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his historical satirical novel Candide, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) presented a fanciful vision of the Jesuit missions established among the Guaraní in parts of what today are Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Some scholars have characterized the missions as having been a socialist utopia, or an independent republic located on the fringes of Spanish territory in South America. What was the reality? This study presents a detailed analysis of one of the Jesuit missions, Los Santos Mártires del Japón, and the story of the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It documents the historical realities of the Jesuit missions, their patterns of development, and the demographic consequences for the mission populations of military conflict.

Book Pamphlets on Dendrology

Download or read book Pamphlets on Dendrology written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foundational Arts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Karl Schuessler
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2014-01-02
  • ISBN : 0816529884
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Foundational Arts written by Michael Karl Schuessler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundational Arts examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. Michael K. Schuessler studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars to Christianize Native peoples and ultimately create a new and unique literary and artistic tradition.

Book The Mestizo Mind

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  • Author : Serge Gruzinski
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 1136697403
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Mestizo Mind written by Serge Gruzinski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These physical and cultural encounters created a new culture, a new individual, and a phenomenon we now call globalization. Revealing globalization's early origins, Gruzinski then fast forwards to the contemporary mélange seen in the films of Peter Greenaway and Wong Kar-Wai to argue that over 500 years of intermingling has produced the mestizo mind, a state of mixed thinking that we all possess. A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, The Mestizo Mind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.

Book Contributions from the United States National Herbarium

Download or read book Contributions from the United States National Herbarium written by Albert Mann and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contributions from the United States National Herbarium

Download or read book Contributions from the United States National Herbarium written by United States National Herbarium and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mining Industry of Mexico

Download or read book The Mining Industry of Mexico written by F. González and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contributions from the United States National Herbarium

Download or read book Contributions from the United States National Herbarium written by Charles Vancouver Piper and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roderick Taliaferro

Download or read book Roderick Taliaferro written by George Cram Cook and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fire in the Canyon

Download or read book Fire in the Canyon written by Leah Sarat and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage. Months later a survivor emerged from a coma to tell his story. The accident had provoked a near-death encounter with God that prompted his conversion to Pentecostalism. Today, over half of the local residents of El Alberto, a town in central Mexico, are Pentecostal. Submitting themselves to the authority of a God for whom there are no borders, these Pentecostals today both embrace migration as their right while also praying that their “Mexican Dream”—the dream of a Mexican future with ample employment for all—will one day become a reality. Fire in the Canyon provides one of the first in‑depth looks at the dynamic relationship between religion, migration, and ethnicity across the U.S.-Mexican border. Faced with the choice between life‑threatening danger at the border and life‑sapping poverty in Mexico, residents of El Alberto are drawing on both their religion and their indigenous heritage to demand not only the right to migrate, but also the right to stay home. If we wish to understand people's migration decisions, Sarat argues, we must take religion seriously. It is through religion that people formulate their ideas about life, death, and the limits of government authority.

Book Image   Object   Performance

Download or read book Image Object Performance written by Astrid Windus and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images, objects, and performances represent essential forms of mediality, which frequently escape our traditional understanding of historical communication. This volume discusses from an interdisciplinary perspective the varying structures and media of communication and representation in transcultural spaces of Latin America and the Philippines. Based on different topics and methodological approaches of the contributors, the articles reflect on the perspectives and problems of the integration of visuality, materiality, and performance as categories of cultural analysis in historical settings between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. In that regard, both the methodological and regional comparative approaches of this volume claim to contribute-beyond the regional focus of the studies-to the general debate about cultural theories and to make general statements about the mechanisms of cross-cultural communication in cultural contact zones of the modern period.