Via 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 collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and art history reveal new facets of the colonial experience by emphasizing the wide range of indigenous individuals who used knowledge to subvert, undermine, critique, and sometimes enhance colonial power. Seeking to understand the political, social, and cultural impact of indigenous intellectuals, the contributors examine both ideological and practical forms of knowledge. Their understanding of "intellectual" encompasses the creators of written texts and visual representations, functionaries and bureaucrats who interacted with colonial agents and institutions, and organic intellectuals.
Contributors. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Kathryn Burns, John Charles, Alan Durston, María Elena Martínez, Tristan Platt, Gabriela Ramos, Susan Schroeder, John F. Schwaller, Camilla Townsend, Eleanor Wake, Yanna Yannakakis
- Contents
- Foreword - Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis
- Part I. Indigenous Functionaries: Ethnicity, Networks, and Institutions
- Chapter 1. Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities - Gabriela Ramos
- Chapter 2. The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl and Bartolomé de Alva: Two "Native" Intellectuals of Seventeenth-Century Mexico - John Frederick Schwaller
- Chapter 3. Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru - John Charles
- Chapter 4. Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca - Yanna Yannakakis
- Part II. Native Historians: Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship
- Chapter 5. Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History - Susan Schroeder
- Chapter 6. The Concept of the Nahua Historian: Don Juan Sapata's Scholarly Tradition - Camilla Townsend
- Chapter 7. Cristóbal Choquescasa and the Making of the Huarochirí Manuscript - Alan Durston
- Part III. Forms of Knowledge: Genealogies, Maps, and Archives
- Part 8. Indigenous Genealogies: Lineage, History, and the Colonial Pact in Central Mexico and Peru - María Elena Martínez
- 9. The Dawning Places: Celesially Defined Land Maps, Titulos Primordiales, and Indigenous Statements of Territorial Possession in Early Colonial Mexico - Eleanor Wake
- 10. Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcaycamayoq in Colonial Cuzco - Kathryn Burns
- Conclusion - Tristan Platt
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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