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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 667–674.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Yanna Yannakakis This introduction poses the central question of this special issue: how did New Spain's colonial institutions and ethnically diverse colonial subjects use Nahuatl to administer and navigate a multilingual society? In response, I lay out a framework drawn from the articles and my...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 713–738.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., this article analyzes how these individuals served as more than just intermediaries between each cultural space. It suggests that mestizos and mulatos were much more prominent cultural actors than has generally been assumed. Their linguistic and cultural fluency helped shaped many aspects of New Spain's...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 541–568.
Published: 01 July 2012
... for Ethnohistory 2012 Lakes, Canoes, and the Aquatic Communities of
Xochimilco and Chalco, New Spain
Richard Conway, Montclair State University
Abstract. Canoes played a vital part in supporting the distinctive aquatic societies
that Nahuas had fashioned from Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco in central...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 129–157.
Published: 01 January 2007
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and Bodily Transgressions in New Spain
Laura A. Lewis, James Madison University
Abstract. Engaging primary documents and scholarly debates, this article examines
an array of practices in colonial Mexico as it undertakes a discursive account of
how gender ideologies informed the politics...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Jacqueline Holler Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain . By Martin Austin Nesvig . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . xxii +252 pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, notes, index. $45.00 hardcover.) Copyright 2021 by American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 291–310.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Diego Javier Luis Abstract During the seventeenth century, transatlantic and transpacific diasporas created one of the world’s most globalized early modern societies in New Spain. As the slave trades to the colonial centers of central Mexico reached frenetic levels after the turn of the seventeenth...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the manuscript was produced. Approximately sixty years after the Spanish invasion, Nahua creators in Tenochtitlan wrote and illustrated the Mexicanus as a guide containing essential information for life in New Spain. The second chapter explains how the authors and artists conceived of time and its relationship...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 366–367.
Published: 01 July 2022
... scholarship, Pulido Rull excels at enlivening the multiple actors entangled in land allocation in New Spain. Free of academic jargon, the volume offers compelling portraits of how Indigenous communities confronted settler-colonial encroachment, which complements existing literature and is well suited...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 368–369.
Published: 01 July 2022
... for Ethnohistory 2022 The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600 . By Ryan Dominic Crewe . ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . xviii + 305 pp., preface, introduction, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $99.99 cloth, $29.99...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 321–352.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the anti-Semitic message that fundamentally characterizes this legend to the context of New Spain, justifying wars of imperial conquest as divine justice for perceived offenses against God. An anonymous Nahua translator-playwright also accommodated a version of this legend for performance to Nahua...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 399–400.
Published: 01 April 2019
... today represent an extension of colonial practices. However, Taylor argues that given the scrutiny of long-distance trade, and the coordination of licensed alms collectors throughout New Spain, we should assume that priests and government officials would have mentioned pilgrimages if they were taking...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 745–747.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Susan M. Deeds The Motions Beneath: Indigenous Migrants of the Urban Frontier of New Spain . By Laurent Corbeil . ( Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 2018 . xi+273 pp., acknowledgements, introduction, maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) Copyright...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 465–487.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Spanish monarchs, King Philip II of Spain never saw the so-called New World with his own eyes. We can imagine, however, that it was constantly on his mind. Its unexpected inclusion in the Spanish empire certainly produced riches, but it came with the price of an administrative quagmire in terms of knowing...
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Figure 5. History of the Indies of New Spain and the Islands of Tierra Firme , “The Encounter of Cortés and Moctezuma.” Courtesy Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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Figure 6. History of the Indies of New Spain and the Islands of Tierra Firme , “The People of Tlaxcala Receive Cortés in Peace.” Courtesy Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 573–574.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Robert C. Schwaller Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550. By Ethilia Ruiz Medrano. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. x + 320 pp., introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 697–720.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and shifting. Not only did it facilitate royal efforts to constrain conqueror claims to native wealth, it also contributed to the eventual recognition of native patrimonial lands in Spanish imperial law. 51 Royal Audiencia of New Spain to King Carlos I, 14 August 1531, AGI Patronato 184, R.16, unnumbered...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 433–435.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Leslie Offutt Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State . Edited by Medrano Ethelia Ruiz and Kellogg Susan . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2011 . xvii + 264 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, map, tables, bibliography...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 362–363.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Inquisition was not established in New Spain until 1571, and in any event did not have the authority to try Indigenous people in the Americas—but the implications of this key difference between the experiences of Indigenous Americans and moriscos could have been considered in more detail throughout...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 95–116.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Travis Jeffres Abstract The Tlaxcalans famously aided Hernando Cortés’s overthrow of the Aztec Empire and provided large numbers of allies in Spain’s subsequent American conquests. In 1591 nearly one thousand Tlaxcalans were resettled along New Spain’s war-torn frontier in an effort to pacify...
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