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Overview
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.
"Its contribution to its specific field is both significant and original. . . . It is a pure pleasure to read." —Sabine MacCormack, Isis
"Mundy has done a fine job of balancing the artistic interpretation of the maps with the larger historical context within which they were drawn. . . . This is an important work." —John F. Schwaller, Sixteenth Century Journal
"This beautiful book opens a Pandora's box in the most positive sense, for it provokes the reconsideration of several long-held opinions about Spanish colonialism and its effects on Native American culture." —Susan Schroeder, American Historical Review
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Barbara E. Mundy is an assistant professor of art history at Fordham University and a contributor to Volume 2, Book 3 of The History of Cartography.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Author's Note Ch. 1: Spain and the Imperial Ideology of Mapping Ch. 2: Mapping and Describing the New World Ch. 3: Colonial Spanish Officials and the Response to the Relacion Geografica Questionnaire Ch. 4: The Native Painters in the Colonial World Ch. 5: The Native Mapping Tradition in the Colonial Period Ch. 6: Language and Naming in the Relaciones Geograficas Maps Ch. 7: The Relaciones Geograficas and Other Viceregal Maps in New Spain Ch. 8: Conclusion App. A: Catalogue of Maps Studied App. B: The Questionnaire of the Relaciones Geograficas App. C: The Nahuatl Inscriptions of the Macuilsuchil Map App. D: A Typical Viceregal Acordado Notes Bibliography Index