The Mapping of New Spain - Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas

To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. In "The Mapping of New Spain," Barbara Mundy illuminates both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these maps and traces the reshaping of indigene world views in the wake of colonization.

Summary

In this text Barbara Mundy illuminates the complex cultural negotiations that colonists and indigenes undertook in mapping the colony of Mexico. She also seeks to explain the Amerindian and Spanish traditions represented in these early colonial maps.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara E. Mundy, Mundy Barbara E.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9780226550978
• ISBN: 978-0-226-55097-8
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 21 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 737 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mexico, Spain, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, Cartography, map-making & projections, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, Cartography, map-making and projections, Geographical maps (specialist), 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Geographical maps: specialist / thematic maps