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- Title
INDÍGENAS GUERREROS DE LA NUEVA ESPAÑA DEL SIGLO XVI. LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE SÍ MISMOS COMO CONQUISTADORES.
- Authors
Pérez Flores, José Luis
- Abstract
In the historiography of the Conquest of Nueva España it is necessary to analyze the imaginary that Indians built of themselves as conquering warriors. Generally the word conqueror evokes the Spanish warriors, excluding Indians in this category. In this article I examine the concept of indigenous conquest and associate the discourses of gender domination with the war and the image of mexica and tlaxcala societies on the eve of the war of conquest. My goal is to demonstrate the importance that the military theme had in the Indian colonial iconography; I discuss its political relevance and compare some pictures of the book XII of the Códice Florentino with the Lienzo de Tlaxcala and the murals of Ixmiquilpan, to explain the political use of the image primarily the Tlaxcaltecas, who sought to legitimize themselves as indigenous conquerors.
- Subjects
WARFARE of the indigenous peoples of the Americas; CONQUERORS; WARRIORS; MILITARY conquest; TLAXCALAN (Mexican people); CHICHIMECA War, 1550-1591; WARS of indigenous peoples of Mexico; MEXICAN history to 1810; KINGS &; rulers
- Publication
Fronteras de la Historia, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
2027-4688
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22380/2027468845