Indian History Flashcards
Elizabeth Hill Boone
Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate uses Aztec codices called the Books of Fate as evidence of Mesoamerican religion.
Barbara Tedlock
Time and the Highland Maya, explores the role of divination in the highland Guatemala region of Quiché
Susan Kellogg
in Weaving the Past a History of Latin America’s Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present draws upon visual sources in order to understand Indian women’s experiences
James Lockhart
The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries was a forerunner in the New Philology School of scholars who use of native language sources to recover aspects of the prehispanic past
Catherine Julien
Reading Inca History explores the Spanish telling’s or retellings of Incan history
Salomon and Urioste
The Huarochirí manuscript: a testament of ancient and Colonial Andean religion translate and historicize a colonial manuscript that records prehispanic Andean religious life
John Hemming
Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians, published in 1978, He uncovered the history of the Brazilian Indians from 1500 through to the expulsion of the Jesuits in the 1760s
Alida Metcalf
Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600, argues that some historians have presented the process of contact or conquest as a dyad between Europeans and Indians, however, third parties were usually present and perhaps key to the process.
Susan Ramirez
The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru each chapter focuses on one aspect of Andean culture that was a source of misunderstanding and contestation between Spanish and Indians
Steve Stern
Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 In 1982 he was one of the first to explore indigenous responses to conquest and colonization
Karen Graubart
With our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700
She studies the lives of urban indigenous women who moved through fluid identities of ethnicity and social classes.
Barbara Ganson
The Guarani under Spanish Rule in Rio de la Plata explores these conflicts over land and the “responses and adjustments that indigenous peoples made
Matthew Restall
Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America centers the interactions between enslaved blacks and indigenous peoples.
Joanne Rappaport
The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes Beginning in the eighteenth century Nasa intellectuals from southern Colombia were writing and rewriting history in order to remain autonomous from the state.
John Chuchiak
an article from 2005 reveals the ways that Mayan men and women exploited the split between Franciscan missionaries and the Colonial government of the Yucatan region
