Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-185) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : giving and receiving -- Chapter 1. Creoles, mestizos, and the native archive -- Chapter 2. Land, law, and lineage : the cacicazgo of San Juan Teotihuacan -- Chapter 3. Configuring native knowledge : seventeenth-century mestizo -- Chapter 4. Circulating native knowledge : seventeenth-century creole -- Epilogue : native knowledge and colonial networks.
Summary:
"Focusing on the production and circulation of native knowledge through collaborations between indigenous, mestizo, and creole intellectuals in colonial Mexico, this book proceeds through an in-depth case study of the exchange of native materials between the family of don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochtil and don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora"--Provided by publisher.
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