The mapping of New Spain : indigenous cartography and the maps of the relaciones geográficas / Barbara E. Mundy.

Author
Mundy, Barbara E. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1996.
Description
xxiii, 281 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

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      Although Cortes conquered the Aztec empire in 1521, imperial Spain knew little about the Mexican territory under its control when Philip II acceded to the throne in 1556. As part of a vast project to learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey - the Relaciones Geograficas - of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. Offering the most complete contemporary record of what sixteenth-century Mexico looked like, the sixty-nine manuscript maps from this survey also highlight the gulf between colonial and indigenous conceptions of Mexico. In The Mapping of New Spain, Barbara Mundy illuminates the complex cultural negotiations that colonists and indigenes undertook in mapping the colony. Her book explains both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these early colonial maps, and traces the gradual reshaping of indigene world views in the wake of colonization.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.
      Contents
      • 1. Spain and the imperial ideology of mapping
      • 2. Mapping and describing the new world
      • 3. Colonial Spanish officials and the response to the relación geográfica questionnaire
      • 4. The native painters in the colonial world
      • 5. The native mapping tradition in the colonial period
      • 6. Language and naming in the relaciones geográfica maps
      • 7. The relaciones geográfica and other viceregal maps in new Spain
      • 8. Conclusion
      • Appendix a: Catalogue of maps studied
      • Appendix b: The questionnaire of the relaciones geográficas
      • Appendix c: The Nahuatl inscriptions of the Macuilsuchil map
      • Appendix d: A typical viceregal acordado.
      ISBN
      • 0226550966 ((cloth ; : acidfree paper))
      • 9780226550961 ((cloth ; : acidfree paper))
      • 9780226550978 ((paperback))
      • 0226550974 ((paperback))
      LCCN
      96015824
      OCLC
      34544665
      International Article Number
      • 9780226550961
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