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The Conquest of Mexico: Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745612263)
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xThe 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.
Author: Serge Gruzinski
ISBN-10: 0745612261
ISBN-13: 9780745612263
Publisher: Polity Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/1993
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.95w x 0.77d
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.
Author: Serge Gruzinski
ISBN-10: 0745612261
ISBN-13: 9780745612263
Publisher: Polity Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/1993
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.95w x 0.77d
By Serge Gruzinski
xSerge Gruzinski is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Director of Studies at the ﾉcole des hautes 騁udes en sciences sociales in Paris.
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