Alex Hidalgo

Broschiertes Buch

Trail of Footprints

A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico

Beschreibung

This study explores how postconquest Mexican indigenous communities used maps to defend prized lands, to create a visual and social history of life before the Spanish, and to record knowledge of pre-Columbian plants.

Autor

Alex Hidalgo is an assistant professor of history at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. His work on mapping in colonial Mexico has been published in Ethnohistory and the Journal of Latin American Geography.

Produktdetails

• Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 208mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781477317525
• ISBN-10: 147731752X
• Artikelnr.: 54146247