Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History

James Lockhart

Published by Stanford University Press 1999

Of Things of the Indies

Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History

James Lockhart

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503618572

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This volume offers an illuminating overview of the work of a pioneering and highly distinguished scholar of early Latin American social and cultural history and philology. Known for the originality of his approach and the variety of his research interests, James Lockhart has gone from studying social history using career pattern methods to an ethnohistory emphasizing indigenous-language philology, all the while stressing general interpretation, synthesis, historiography, and the development of analytical concepts and categories. The present volume illustrates all these interests and activities within the covers of a single book; the reader can see not only common threads running through the individual essays, but also the close relationships between types of scholarship all too often seen as utterly distinct. The "old and new" of the subtitle is meant literally; the first piece was written in 1968, the last in 1998. Some are already well known, while others have appeared in quite obscure venues. Four of the twelve chapters are published here for the first time. They elucidate the reading of texts for social and cultural purposes, expound on aspects of Nahuatl historical linguistics, discuss the problematic nature of the concept of resistance in Western Hemisphere culture encounters, and review the author's experience with the scholarly disciplines, which involves a certain amount of intellectual autobiography. The tone of the volume is generally colloquial, for nine chapters originated as lectures and attempt to interpret for a wider audience the author's research as represented in his monographic books. Previously published pieces have been revised or expanded to a greater or lesser degree. Their subjects include the transition from encomienda to hacienda, the evolution of social history in Latin American studies, the economic rationality of Spanish procedures, the changing role of merchants in Spanish America, the editing of Nahuatl texts, the author's concept of Double Mistaken Identity, and the process of cultural contact in three major Latin American areas.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Frontispiece: Map of the Western Hemisphere by Diego Gutierrez, 1562 (detail) Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
1. Encomienda and Hacienda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Social History of Early Latin America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Letters and People to Spain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4. Double Mistaken Identity: Some Nahua Concepts in Postconquest Guise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
5. Trunk Lines and Feeder Lines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
6. The Merchants of Early Spanish America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
7. A Double Tradition: Editing Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
8. Three Experiences of Culture Contact: Nahua, Maya, and Quechua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
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10. Some Unfashionable Ideas on the History of the Nahuatl Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
11. Receptivity and Resistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Other: 1 map, 2 figures, 1 table

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