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Book SynopsisVia military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This book highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment.
Trade Review"The beauty of this volume is that the collected essays touch on so many topics key to colonial studies today... that it is no longer possible to exclude indigenous intellectuals from the scholarly discussion or the university classroom. With regard to the latter, the volume is a boon to those who have long wished to include indigenous voices in their advanced undergraduate and graduate-level seminars but did not know where to begin." -- Kelly S. McDonough * Ethnohistory *
"The editors' framing of the project is thoughtful. They are sensitive to historical change on both the Indigenous and European sides of the cultural divide, and to the many ways in which knowledge could be inscribed.... The contributors to
Indigenous Intellectuals deserve great credit for putting their topic on the map and making major advances within it." -- Raphael Folsom * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *
"[T]his volume... represents a major step forward in further deconstructing Spanish presentations of colonial realities." -- Claudia Brosseder * American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsForeword / Elizabeth Hill Boone ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction / Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis 1 Part I. Indigenous Functionaries: Ethnicity, Networks, and Institutions 1. Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities / Gabriela Ramos 21 2. The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl and Bartolome de Alva: Two "Native" Intellectuals of Seventeenth-Century Mexico / John Frederick Schwaller 39 3. Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru / John Charles 60 4. Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca / Yanna Yannakakis 79 Part II. Native Historians: Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship 5. Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History / Susan Schroeder 107 6. The Concept of the Nahua Historian: Don Juan Zapata's Scholarly Tradition / Camilla Townsend 132 7. Cristobal Choquescasa and the Making of the Huarochiri Manuscript / Alan Durston 151 Part III. Forms of Knowledge: Genealogies, Maps, and Archives 8. Indigenous Genealogies: Lineage, History, and the Colonial Pact in Central Mexico and Peru / Maria Elena Martinez 9. The Dawning Places: Celestially Defined Land Maps, Titulos Primordiales, and Indigenous Statements of Territorial Possession in Early Colonial Mexico / Eleanor Wake 202 10. The Quilcaycamayoq: Making Indigenous Archives in Colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns 237 Conclusion / Tristan Platt 261 Bibliography 279 Contributors 307 Index 311
