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Gruzinski, Serge

The Conquest of Mexico: Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century

Gruzinski, Serge - The Conquest of Mexico: Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century, e-bok

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The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.

Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the Indian's memory, changes in their perception of reality, the spread of the European idea of the supernatural and the Spanish colonists' introduction of alphabetical script which the Indians had to combine with their own traditional - oral and pictorial - forms of communication.

Gruzinski discusses the Indians' often awkward initiation into writing, their assimilation of Spanish culture, and their subsequent reinterpretation of their own past and recovers the changing Indian perceptions of the sacred and their 'absorption' of elements from the Christian tradition.

The Conquest of Mexico is a major work of cultural history which reconstructs a crucial episode in the European colonization of the New World. It is also an important contribution to the study of the relationship between memory, orality, images and writing in history.

Nyckelord: conquest; brilliant; spanish; account; mexico; unfamiliar; new; indian; took; gruzinski; three; process; place; centuries; societies; colonization; native; analyses; disruptions; indians memory; reality; perception; changes; colonists; script, Early Modern History (1500-1780), Early Modern History (1500-1780)

Författare
Utgivare
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Utgivningsår
1993
Språk
en
Utgåva
1
Sidantal
368 sidor
Kategori
Historia
Format
E-bok
eISBN (ePUB)
9780745683560
Tryckt ISBN
9780745612263

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