Jongsoo Lee

Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives Jongsoo Lee

Brief Description: "Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current debates that derive from differences in the way scholars view abundant and diverse iconographic and alphabetic sources, and proposes a new look at Texcocan history and culture from different academic disciplines. Contributors address some of the most pressing issues in Texcocan studies and bring new ones to light: the role of Texcoco in the Aztec empire, the construction and transformation of Prehispanic history in the colonial period, the continuity and transformation of indigenous culture and politics after the conquest, and the nature and importance of iconographic and alphabetic texts that originated in this city-state, such as the Codex Xolotl, the Mapa Quinatzin, and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's chronicles. Multiple scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches offer alternative paradigms of research and open a needed dialogue among disciplines--social, political, literary, and art history, as well as the history of science. This comprehensive overview of Prehispanic and colonial Texcoco will be of interest to Mesoamerican scholars in the social sciences and humanities"--Biographical Note: Jongsoo Lee is an associate professor in the Department of World Languages, Literature, and Cultures at the University of North Texas. He specializes in the study of Prehispanic and colonial Mexico and he is the author of "The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics" (University of New Mexico Press, 2008). Galen Brokaw is associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montana State University. He specializes in indigenous American cultural studies focusing on Mesoamerica and the Andes. He is the author of "A History of the Khipu "(Cambridge University Press, 2010). Review Quotes: "Sound, enlightening, and interesting."--Rocio Cortez, The University of Wisconsin, OshkoshMarc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current debates that derive from differences in the way scholars view abundant and diverse iconographic and alphabetic sources, and proposes a new look at Texcocan history and culture from different academic disciplines. Contributors address some of the most pressing issues in Texcocan studies and bring new ones to light: the role of Texcoco in the Aztec empire, the construction and transformation of Prehispanic history in the colonial period, the continuity and transformation of indigenous culture and politics after the conquest, and the nature and importance of iconographic and alphabetic texts that originated in this city-state, such as the Codex Xolotl, the Mapa Quinatzin, and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's chronicles. Multiple scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches offer alternative paradigms of research and open a needed dialogue among disciplines--social, political, literary, and art history, as well as the history of science. This comprehensive overview of Prehispanic and colonial Texcoco will be of interest to Mesoamerican scholars in the social sciences and humanities--; Provided by publisher. Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Texcocan Studies Past and Present / Jongsoo Lee, Galen Brokaw -- 2. Improving Western Historiography of Texcoco / Jerome A. Offner -- 3. The Aztec Triple Alliance: A Colonial Transformation of the Prehispanic Political and Tributary System / Jongsoo Lee -- 4. Polygyny and the Divided Altepetl: The Tetzcocan Key to Pre-conquest Nahua Politics / Camilla Townsend -- 5. The Mapa Quinatzin and Texcoco's Ideal Subordinate Lords / Lori Boornazian Diel -- 6. Evidence of Acolhua Science in Pictorial Land Records / Barbara J. Williams, nice K. Pierce -- 7. Don Carlos de Tezcoco and the Universal Rights of Emperor Carlos V / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano -- 8. Bevond the Burned Stake: The Rule of Don Antonio Pimentel Tlahuitoltzin in Tetzcoeo, 1540-45 / Bradley Benton -- 9. The Alva Ixtlilxochitl Brothers and the Nahua Intellectual Community / Amber Brian -- 10. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Texcocan Dynasty: Nobility, Genealogy, and Historiography / Pablo Garcia Loaeza -- 11. The Reinvented Man-God of Colonial Texcoco: Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Nezahualcoyotl / Lena Kauffmann -- List of Contributors -- Index. Publisher Marketing:"Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives" presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current debates that derive from differences in the way scholars view abundant and diverse iconographic and alphabetic sources, and proposes a new look at Texcocan history and culture from different academic disciplines. Contributors address some of the most pressing issues in Texcocan studies and bring new ones to light: the role of Texcoco in the Aztec empire, the construction and transformation of Prehispanic history in the colonial period, the continuity and transformation of indigenous culture and politics after the conquest, and the nature and importance of iconographic and alphabetic texts that originated in this city-state, such as the Codex Xolotl, the Mapa Quinatzin, and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's chronicles. Multiple scholarly perspectives and methodological approaches offer alternative paradigms of research and open a needed dialogue among disciplines--social, political, literary, and art history, as well as the history of science. This comprehensive overview of Prehispanic and colonial Texcoco will be of interest to Mesoamerican scholars in the social sciences and humanities.

Contributor Bio:  Lee, Jongsoo Jongsoo Lee is an associate professor of Spanish and teaches pre-Hispanic and colonial Latin American literature and culture in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of North Texas. Contributor Bio:  Brokaw, Galen Galen Brokaw is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo. He has previously taught at Lafayette College and as a visiting professor at Harvard University. Brokaw has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. His articles have been published in Latin American Research Review, Colonial Latin American Review, Centennial Review, the Bulletin of the Comediantes, and other journals.