Trail of Footprints - A History of Indigenous Maps From Viceregal Mexico

This study explores how postconquest Mexican indigenous communities used maps to defend prized lands, to create a visual and social history of life before the Spanish, and to record knowledge of pre-Columbian plants.

List of contents

• Illustrations
• Notes on Translation
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Patrons
• Chapter 2. Painters
• Chapter 3. Materials
• Chapter 4. Authentication
• Epilogue. Afterlife
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the author

Alex Hidalgo is an assistant professor of history at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. His work on mapping in colonial Mexico has been published in Ethnohistory and the Journal of Latin American Geography.

Summary

This study explores how postconquest Mexican indigenous communities used maps to defend prized lands, to create a visual and social history of life before the Spanish, and to record knowledge of pre-Columbian plants.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Hidalgo
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781477317525
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1752-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous