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Author:

Pulido Rull, Ana, author.

Title:

Mapping indigenous land : native land grants in colonial New Spain / Ana Pulido Rull.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 258 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Land grants--New Spain--Maps.
Boundary disputes--Maps.
Artists as cartographers.
Indigenous art--New Spain.
Indigenous peoples--Government relations.
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure.
Art, Spanish colonial--New Spain.
New Spain--History--16th century.
Castile (Spain)--History--16th century.

Other Authors:

University of Oklahoma. Press.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Distributing the lands of New Spain -- Painting the Colonial World -- Requesting the grant -- Opposing the grant -- Negotiating the grant -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Examines how indigenous artists crafted and used mapas de mercedes de tierras, land grant maps, to negotiate land disputes with Spanish authorities in sixteenth-century New Spain"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0806164964
9780806164960

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1122802860

LCCN:

2019046960

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)