Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico - Mixing Epistemologies

Informationen zum Autor Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the coeditor of The Menial Art of Cooking: Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation (with Sarah Graff, 2012) and of The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs (with Deborah Nichols, forthcoming). He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) of Stanford University, California in 2010–11 and the recipient of a Howard Fellowship in 2012–13. He has done fieldwork in Central Mexico since 1996, including volunteer work with the Programa de Arqueología Urbana of the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City, as well as directing several seasons of excavation in Xaltocan. Klappentext An archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the years after the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.This is a study of life in two radically different sites in colonial Mexico: Mexico City, the focus of Spanish colonization, and Xaltocan, an indigenous town. Topics include the adoption of foreign material culture by Spaniards and by indigenous people, technological change, food, clothing, and patterns of change after the Spanish conquest. Inhaltsverzeichnis Inception: mixing epistemologies; 1. Things the Spanish left behind; 2. Interethnic feasts; 3. Tacking in Lake Xaltocan; 4. Technology and time travel; 5. The color of majolica, or how 'natives' think, about majolica, for example?; Mixed epistemologies: materiality in the Spanish colonies.

Product details

• Authors: Enrique Rodraiguez-Alegraia, Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria, Enrique (University of Texas Rodriguez-Alegria, Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2016
• EAN: 9781107111646
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11164-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Archaeology by period / region, History of the Americas