Author: Lata DaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Indo-Aztec Cultural Affinity
Author: Lata DaniIndo-Kenyan Cultural Ethos
Author: Achyut Ramkrishna PathakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Author: Manuel Aguilar-MorenoPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195330838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Indo-Asian Culture
Author: Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture
Author: Colin M. MacLachlanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067428643X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in the early sixteenth century. But the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture chronicles this violent clash of two empires and shows how modern Mestizo culture evolved over the centuries as a synthesis of Old and New World civilizations. Colin MacLachlan begins by tracing Spain and Mesoamerica’s parallel trajectories from tribal enclaves to complex feudal societies. When the Spanish laid siege to Tenochtitlán and destroyed it in 1521, the Aztecs could only interpret this catastrophe in cosmic terms. With their gods discredited and their population ravaged by epidemics, they succumbed quickly to Spanish control—which meant submitting to Christianity. Spain had just emerged from its centuries-long struggle against the Moors, and zealous Christianity was central to its imperial vision. But Spain’s conquistadors far outnumbered its missionaries, and the Church’s decision to exclude Indian converts from priesthood proved shortsighted. Native religious practices persisted, and a richly blended culture—part Indian, part Christian—began to emerge. The religious void left in the wake of Spain’s conquests had enduring consequences. MacLachlan’s careful analysis explains why Mexico is culturally a Mestizo country while ethnically Indian, and why modern Mexicans remain largely orphaned from their indigenous heritage—the adopted children of European history.
Instant Encyclopaedia of Geography
Author: Shatrughna P. SinhaPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170995050
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A Contested Art
Author: Stephanie LewthwaitePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806152885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region was still largely populated by Spanish-speaking Hispanos. Anglos who came in search of new personal and aesthetic freedoms found inspiration for their modernist ventures in Hispano art forms. Yet, when these arrivistes elevated a particular model of Spanish colonial art through their preservationist endeavors and the marketplace, practicing Hispano artists found themselves working under a new set of patronage relationships and under new aesthetic expectations that tied their art to a static vision of the Spanish colonial past. In A Contested Art, historian Stephanie Lewthwaite examines the complex Hispano response to these aesthetic dictates and suggests that cultural encounters and appropriation produced not only conflict and loss but also new transformations in Hispano art as the artists experimented with colonial art forms and modernist trends in painting, photography, and sculpture. Drawing on native and non-native sources of inspiration, they generated alternative lines of modernist innovation and mestizo creativity. These lines expressed Hispanos’ cultural and ethnic affiliations with local Native peoples and with Mexico, and presented a vision of New Mexico as a place shaped by the fissures of modernity and the dynamics of cultural conflict and exchange. A richly illustrated work of cultural history, this first book-length treatment explores the important yet neglected role Hispano artists played in shaping the world of modernism in twentieth-century New Mexico. A Contested Art places Hispano artists at the center of narratives about modernism while bringing Hispano art into dialogue with the cultural experiences of Mexicans, Chicanas/os, and Native Americans. In doing so, it rewrites a chapter in the history of both modernism and Hispano art. Published in cooperation with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Worlds of Natural History
Author: Helen Anne CurryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131651031X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.
Medieval Iberian Tradition and the Development of the Mexican Hacienda
Author: William SchellPublisher: Syracuse, NY, USA : Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Modern Review
Author: Ramananda ChatterjeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".