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...Noble David Cook Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes . By Rappaport Joanne and Cummins Tom . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xvi + 350 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index . $94.95 cloth, $24.95...

... for Ethnohistory 2015 authority lettered city money cacao tribute annals history Nahua allograph References Alvarado Pedro de 1924 [1525] An Account of the Conquest of Guatemala in 1524 . Mackie Sedley J. , ed. With a facsimile of the Spanish original . New York : Cortes...

... indigenous people shaped and responded to colonialism as intellectuals. The figures under consideration—including men known and anonymous, individuals and groups—operated both within and beyond the lettered city as politically and socially adept agents of their own discourses and agendas. The volume...

... ). The overall paucity of Native-authored sources has led other scholars to instead examine the discursive universe of colonial authors, the so-called “lettered city,” articulating administrators’ attempts to produce social order. Some have read against the archival grain of extant records by assessing...

...). In Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America , Juan Pablo Dabove ( 2007 ) takes on the idea of the “lettered city” and discusses the characters that haunt and threaten the safety and survival of the lettered city, the nucleus of the Latin American republic. As Dabove points out...

... sacristan from the North Coast who nearly usurped Luringuanca’s lordship in Jauja. Their stories can be read as picaresque, but De la Puente makes more of them than that; we are learning how colonial native rights had to be reinvented in the Lettered City. Mid-colonial viceroys tried to contain native...

... American Review 24 , no. 1 : 60 – 83 . Dierksmeier Laura . 2020 . Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan-Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527–1700 . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press . Dueñas Alcira . 2010 . Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”: Reshaping...

... and even modern times, affording documentary clues about both its inner system and its articulation with the alphabetic orbit. Part 1 of this collection gathers six synthetic studies of how the cord art endured into the “lettered city” (as Angel Rama described Spain’s scribal empire). John Topic...

... critic Ángel Rama noted in The Lettered City the importance of a “social rank of ‘lettered’ functionaries”—administrators,­ notaries, educators, judges, and other professionals—in Spanish America.34 These men of letters (letrados) wrote the official language of the Spanish colonial enterprise...

... University Press. Rama, Angel 1996 The Lettered City . John Charles Chasteen, trans. Durham, nc: Duke University Press. Rojas, Ulísses 1965 El cacique de Turmequé y su época . Tunja, Colombia: Imprenta Departamental de Boyacá. Rosaldo, Renato 1995 Foreword. In Hybrid Cultures: Strategies...

... . Dueñas Alcira . 2010 . Indians and Mestizos in the Lettered City: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru . Boulder : University Press of Colorado . Dueñas Alcira . 2017 . “ Cabildos de naturales en el ocaso colonial: Jurisdicción, posesión y defensa...

..., trans. Rabasa, José. Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World (James H. McDonald) 789 Rappaport, Joanne, and Tom Cummins. Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes (Noble David Cook) 344 Ray...

... . Dueñas Alcira 2010 Indians and Mestizos in the Lettered City: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru . Boulder : University Press of Colorado . Escalona y Agüero Gaspar de 1675 Gazophilativm regivm prevbicvm . . . . Matriti : Ex typographia...

... to the viceroy, Martínez Compañón noted that in the city of Lamas he had to suggest to the citizens and inhabitants the indispensable necessity of establishing a school of first letters in which the children were instructed in the Castilian language and the Christian doctrine, and how to read, write, and sing...

... Caroline . 2015 . “ Philip II and Indigenous Access to Royal Justice: Considering the Process of Decision-Making in the Spanish Empire .” Colonial Latin American Review 24 : 4 , 505 – 24 . Dueñas Alcira . 2010 . Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”: Reshaping Justice and Social...

... Tom . 2012 . Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . ...

... with an analysis of five letters written by Ruiz de Alarcón to the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Mexico City. I show that he courted the Holy Office and that his goal was to become an inquisitorial functionary to have investigative authority over non-Indigenous people. With the information Ruiz de Alarcón...

... ( 2 ): 227 – 68 . Bricker Victoria R. Yah Eleuterio Po'ot de Po'ot Ofelia Dzul 1998 A Dictionary of the Maya Language as Spoken in Hocabá, Yucatán . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press . Christensen Mark Z. 2013 Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts...

... outside the walled part of the city. In a letter to the Crown, Muñoz says he made this map in part to identify the hospital site, where a sturdy building had suffered great damage in recent years. Now, however, nothing but a humble, tempo- rary structure, in need of refinancing and rebuilding...

...- ample, proudly mentioned in a letter to the presidente that Antonio Masgana, a man under his tutelage, had opened the previously unused overland route between Panamá City and Cartagena. In addition to serving as a path along...