Indigenous Intellectuals - Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes - Grand Format

"This superb volume brings together a veritable who's who of the scholars who hoe pushed the study of indigenous intellectuals into a coherent subfield of ethnohistory. Their essays are populated by a wide array of educated native men from colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, and Peru, from interpreters and translators to lettered noblemen. The colonial cultural patterns that emerge are as fascinating and illuminating as the indigenous individuals who are brought to life in the essays.
A must-read for all scholars of colonial Latin America."—MATTHEW RESTALL, coauthor of Latin America in Colonial Times "It is refreshing to come across an edited volume whose every contribution displays an equal standard ofexcellence. The stories of these indigenous men ofletters are the products of intensive archival research and are narrated in lucid prose ; we come to know these colonial actors as thinkers and as individuals.
The Mexico-Peru comparison is cogent, fresh, and insightful."—JOANNE RAPPAPORT, author of The Disappearing Mestizo : Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada