To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America

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The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people. The colonizers’ intent was once to homogenize these cultures and make they all “Indian.” The creation of the ones new identities is the topic of the essays collected in Díaz’s To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America. That specialize in central Mexico and the Andes (colonial New Spain and Peru), the contributors deepen scholarly knowledge of colonial history and literature, emphasizing the different ways people become and lived their lives as “indios.” Whilst the development of indigenous identities has been a theme of considerable interest among Latin Americanists because the early 1990s, this book presents new archival research and interpretive thinking, offering new material and a new option to the topic to both scholars of colonial Peru and central Mexico.

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