Mapping of New Spain Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas

Name: Mapping of New Spain Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
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ISBN: 9780226550978

ISBN-10: 0226550974

ISBN-13: 9780226550978

Edition: 2000

Authors: Barbara E. Mundy

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To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. In The Mapping of New Spain, Barbara Mundy illuminates both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these maps and traces the reshaping of indigene world views in the wake of colonization. "Its contribution to its specific field is both significant and original. . . . It is a pure pleasure to read." --Sabine MacCormack, Isis "Mundy has done a fine job of balancing the artistic interpretation of the maps with the larger…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 8.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Author's Note



Spain and the Imperial Ideology of Mapping



Mapping and Describing the New World



Colonial Spanish Officials and the Response to the Relacion Geografica Questionnaire



The Native Painters in the Colonial World



The Native Mapping Tradition in the Colonial Period



Language and Naming in the Relaciones Geograficas Maps



The Relaciones Geograficas and Other Viceregal Maps in New Spain



Conclusion



Catalogue of Maps Studied



The Questionnaire of the Relaciones Geograficas



The Nahuatl Inscriptions of the Macuilsuchil Map



A Typical Viceregal Acordado


Notes


Bibliography


Index