Building Yanhuitlan : art, politics, and religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500 /
Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question. How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposin...
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Indigenous Leadership and Religion, and the Spanish Conquest : Postclassic Yanhuitlan and Mixteca Alta (A.D. 1000-1521)
- 2. The Convento : Labor, Conflict, and Networks
- 3. Renaissance Rhetoric and Image
- 4. Within Church Walls
- 5. The Royal Residence and the Village
- 6. Social Change and Political Undercurrents
- 7. The Life of Images : Processional Sculptures
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Transcription of Original Documents
- Appendix B: Yanhuitlan Dynastic Succession
- Glossary.