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

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.