2. Recommended texts for reserve for the class Visual and Textual Representations in New Spain, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (for undergraduate students)

On visual representation

Farango, Claire, ed. Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1650. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1995.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. Visual Culture Reader. London, New York : Routledge, 1998.  

Mitchell, W. J. Thomas. Picture Theory : Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Scott, John F. Latin American Art: Ancient to Modern. Florida: UP of Florida, 1999.  

On Mesoamerican writing systems

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. New World Encounters. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1993.

Gruzinski, Serge. Painting the Conquest.  Paris, France: Flammarion, 1992.

Hill-Boone, Elizabeth and Walter Mignolo. Writing Without Words Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1994.

The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Rabasa, José. Writing Violence on the Northen Frontier. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2000.

Robertson, Donald. Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.

On representation

Borah, Woodrow. Justice by Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1983.

---. AThe Spanish and Indian Law: New Spain@. The Inca and Aztec States: 1400-1800. Ed. George A. Collier, et al. New York: Academic Press, 1982. 265-88.

Borges, Pedro. Métodos misionales en la cristianización de América, siglo XVI. Madrid, España: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1958.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions. Chicago. U of Chicago P, 1991.

Jara, René and Nicholas Spadaccini, eds. Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1992.

Kellogg, Susan. Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Stern, Steve. AThe Social Significance of Judicial Institutions in an Exploitative Society: Huamanga, Perú, 1570-1640." The Inca and Aztec States: 1400-1800. Ed. George A. Collier, et al. New York: Academic Press, 1982. 289-320.

Todorov, Tzvetan. The Conquest of America. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1984.

Young, Robert. Colonial Desire : Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race. London, New York : Routledge, 1999.

On Colonial México

Escalante Gonzalbo, Pablo, coord. Historia de la vida cotidiana en México. Mesoamérica y los ámbitos indígenas de la Nueva España. Vol 1. México: Fondo de Cultura, 2004.

Gibson, Charles. Los Aztecas bajo el dominio espanol. México: Siglo XXI, 2003.

Lockhart, James. The Nahua After the Conquest. Stanford: Stanford California Press, 1992.

Mills, Kenneth and William B. Taylor, eds. Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History. Washington, Delaware: A Scholarly Resources Inc. Imprint., 1998.

On Chimalpahin:

Schroeder, Susan. Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991.

Schroeder, Susan and J. O Anderson Trad. Codex Chimalpahin. Vol. 1 y 2. Norman y Londres: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

On Popol Vuh

Tedlock, Dennis, ed. Popol Vuh. New York: Touchtone, 1996.

On the Colegio de Tlatelolco:

León-Portilla, Ascensión y Miguel León Portilla. “El Colegio Imperial de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco”. Tlatelolco. México: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1990. 36-65.

Ricard, Robert. La conquista espiritual de México. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002.

Kobayashi, José María. Educación como conquista. México: El Colegio de México, 2002.

On other indigenous writers:

Velazco, Salvador. Visiones de Anahuac. Reconstrucciones historiograficas y etnicidades emergentes en el México colonial: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Diego Munoz Camargo y Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc. Guadalajara, México: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2003.

 On  Florentine Codex

Gruzinsky, Serge. "Painting New Spain". Painting the Conquest. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1992. 140-169.

Hill-Boone, Elizabeth. "Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records Without Words." Writing Without Words. Eds. Elizabieth Hill-Boone and Walter Mignolo. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1994. 50-76.

Lockhart, James. We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Ed. James Lockhart Berkeley: University of California, 1993.

Moffitt Watts, Pauline. "Languages of Gesture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: Some Antecedents and Transmutations." Reframing the Renaissance: Visual
Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1650. Ed. Claire Farango. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1995.140-151.

Quiñones Keber, Eloise. " (Re)discovering Aztec Images." Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus. Eds. René Jara y Nicholas Spadaccini.
Minneapolis: U for Minnesota P, 1992. 132-162.

Todorov, Tzvetan. "Montezuma and Signs". The Conquest of America. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1984. 63-97.

Umberger, Emily. "The Monarchía Indiana in Seventeenth-Century New Spain. Converging Cultures. New York: Harry N. Abrahams Inc., 1996. 46-58.

Other

Buckhart, Louise. The Slippery Earth. Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1989

Elliot, J.H. “Cortés and Montezuma.” The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Eds. Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 105-109.

Greenblatt, Stephen. "Introduction". Marvelous Possessions. Chicago. U of Chicago P, 1991. 1-25
Haraway, Donna. "The Persistence of Vision". The Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. New York : Routledge, 1998.191-198.

Mignolo, Walter. "Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World." . Writing Without Words Alternative Literacies in
Mesoamerica and the Andes. Eds.  Elizabeth Hill-Boone y Walter Mignolo.Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1994.220-270.

---. "When Speaking Was Not Good Enough Illiterates, Barbarians, Savages and Cannibals." Amerindian Images and the Legacy of
Columbus. Eds. René Jara y Nicholas Spadaccini. Minneapolis: U for Minnesota P, 1992. 312-345.

 Mills, Kenneth and William B. Taylor. "Christoph Widitz's Drawing of an Indian Woman of Mexico." Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History.
Washington, Delaware: A Scholarly Resources Inc. Imprint., 1998.71-73.

Rogoff, Irit. "Studying Visual Culture". The Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. New York : Routledge, 1998. 14-26.

Rozat Dupeyron, Guy. Indios imaginarios e indios reales en los relatos de la conquista de México. México: Universidad Veracruzana, 2002.

Young, Robert. "Culture and the History of Difference". (Chapter 2). Colonial Desire : Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race. London, New York :
Routledge, 1999. 29-54.