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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Spanish conquest"”.
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Between gods and men : analyzing the Aztec deification of the Spanish Conquistadores and reassessing its significance
Immediately following the Spanish Conquest of Mexico in 1521, accounts arose claiming the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods. This tale of Spanish deification has sparked heated debate among scholars for centuries as they have been asking, "Did the Aztecs truly believe the Spaniards to be …
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SCENES FROM COPACABANA: REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION IN THE LAKE TITICACA REGION
… from the Colla nation to the Inca Empire, the Spanish Conquest, the Bolivian Republic, and the Plurinational Republic of Bolivia.
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Searching for Mother: Chicana Writers Revise and Renew Malinche and Guadalupe
… archetypes that emerged in Mexico during the Spanish conquest period and that traditionally became dichotomous constructions of virgin and whore, Virgin Mary and Eve, and protector and traitor, respectively. However, contemporary Chicana feminist writers, such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo, …
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
… is situated within the historical context of the Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica in 1519-1524 and the establishment of Israel in 1948 as a Jewish state. Both events have created a rupture in Mayan and Palestinian histories and geographies, respectively, thus leading to the minoritization of these …
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Monsters in Paradise: The Representation of the Natural World in the Historias of Bartolome de Las Casas and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
… Esguerra and Barrera-Osorio have shown, early Spanish accounts of New World nature reflect an unprecedented emphasis on empirical methods of acquiring and systematizing knowledge of the natural world, contributing to the emergence of natural history and ultimately the Scientific Revolution. …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
… and commons: More's original 1516 text and the conquest of the Americas that lies behind it; several agrarian and communal projects in the Americas situated at the intersection of modernity, imperialism, land, and history; postapocalyptic narratives that find their logic in the revelation of a …
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Politics, infrastructure and non-human subjects: The Inka occupation of the Amaybamba cloud forests
… Peru, during the Late Horizon, just prior to the Spanish Conquest. This region lies among the dense cloud forests of the eastern Andes, and was situated at the northwestern edges of the Inka heartland centered around the former imperial capital of Cuzco. The main interest for the Inkas in the …
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Disease and De Soto: A Bioarchaeological Approach to the Introduction of Malaria to the Southeast US
… introduced to the Americas during the time of Spanish and French exploration. Diseases such as smallpox, measles and yellow fever have been credited in playing a role in the Spanish conquest of the New World through drastic Native American population decline. Many researchers have studied the …
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From the Edge: the Littoral in Visual and Literary Imaginaries of Mexico
… and territorial development from the time of the Spanish conquest through to the twentieth century. Bringing decolonial principles and works of Cultural Geography to the analysis of visual and literary materials, and incorporating anthropological and ethnographic stances, the multimedia and …
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Burial Chronological Sequencing of the Colonial Maya Cemetery at Tipu, Belize Using Fluoride Ion Analysis
… Belize, dating from within the first century of Spanish contact, has provided one of the largest and best preserved Maya skeletal series, with over 500 burials recovered. While this series has undergone vast amounts of analysis, there has yet been an analysis conducted to view how patterns …
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“Picb’il”: digital repatriation and textile production as cultural revival in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala.
… tradition in the Maya region to survive the Spanish conquest and subsequent waves of violence. For Q’eqchi’ women of the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala, textile production not only plays an important role in continuing indigenous culture, but also contributes to family and community economic life. …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
<p>This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow …