Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2016
Author	Author: Brian Amber
Language	English
Number of Pages	196 pp.
Publisher	Vanderbilt University Press
City	Nashville, TN
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Region	Latin America and Caribbean
Library Type	Archives and Special Collections Private/Personal Library
Demographics	Native Americans
Chronological Period	17th century
ISBN	9780826520975
Annotation	Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578–1650) was a local governor and interpreter in the Real Audiencia. Examines his collection of manuscripts documenting indigenous communities prior to European domination of the historical narrative. Contents: Introduction: giving and receiving Creoles, mestizos, and the native archive Land, law, and lineage: the cacicazgo of San Juan Teotihuacan Configuring native knowledge: seventeenth-century mestizo Circulating native knowledge: seventeenth-century creole Epilogue: native knowledge and colonial networks.