Cuernavaca and Onward to El Rio Balsas
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Category : Cuernavaca (Mexico)
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 191?
Category : Cuernavaca (Mexico)
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File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Robert Stephen Haskett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806135861
Cuernavaca, often called the “Mexican Paradise” or “Land of Eternal Spring,” has a deep, rich history. Few visitors to this modern resort city near Mexico City would guess from its Spanish architecture and landmarks that it was governed by its Tlalhuican residents until the early nineteenth century. Formerly called Cuauhnahuac, the city was renamed by the Spanish in the sixteenth century when Hernando Cortés built his stone palacio on its main square and thrust Cuernavaca into the colonial age. In Visions of Paradise, Robert Haskett presents a history of Cuernavaca, basing his account on an important body of late-seventeenth-century historical records known as primordial titles, written by still unknown members of the Native population. Until comparatively recently, these indigenous-language documents have been dismissed as “false” or “forged” land records. Haskett, however, uses these Nahuatl texts to present a colorful portrait of how the Tlalhuicas of Cuernavaca and its environs made intellectual sense of their place in the colonial scheme, conceived of their relationship to the sacred worlds of both their native religion and Christianity, and defined their own history. Surveying the local history of Cuernavaca from precontact observations by the Aztecs through postclassic times to the present, with a concentration on early colonial times, Haskett finds that the Native authors of the primordial titles crafted a celebratory history proclaiming themselves to be an enduringly autonomous, essentially unconquered people who triumphed over the rigors of the Spanish colonial system.
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Mexico
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Author : Keith Richard Willmott
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
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Revision of butterflies of genus Adelpha from Neotropics.
Author : Exequiel Ezcurra
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
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"The book examines some of these questions in a historic perspective, arguing that the depletion of natural resources in the Basin of Mexico is not just a recent phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Adrian C. Newton
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 2831713404
Author : Peter H. Gleick
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597262798
Author : Nevin Otto Winter
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Mexico
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Author : David Tavarez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 080477739X
After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century. The author's innovative interpretation of these efforts is punctuated by three events: the creation of an Inquisition tribunal in Mexico in 1571; the native rebellion of Tehuantepec in 1660; and the emergence of eerily modern strategies for isolating idolaters, teaching Spanish to natives, and obtaining medical proof of sorcery from the 1720s onwards. Rather than depicting native devotions solely from the viewpoint of their colonial codifiers, this book rescues indigenous perspectives on their own beliefs. This is achieved by an analysis of previously unknown or rare ritual texts that circulated in secrecy in Nahua and Zapotec communities through an astute appropriation of European literacy. Tavárez contends that native responses gave rise to a colonial archipelago of faith in which local cosmologies merged insights from Mesoamerican and European beliefs. In the end, idolatry eradication inspired distinct reactions: while Nahua responses focused on epistemological dissent against Christianity, Zapotec strategies privileged confrontations in defense of native cosmologies.