Mapping indigenous land : native land grants in colonial New Spain /

Mapping indigenous land : native land grants in colonial New Spain /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pulido Rull, Ana, author.
Imprint:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2020]
Description:	x, 258 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Land grants -- New Spain -- Maps. Boundary disputes -- Maps. Artists as cartographers. Indigenous art -- New Spain. Indigenous peoples -- Government relations. Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure. Art, Spanish colonial -- New Spain. Art, Spanish colonial. Artists as cartographers. Indigenous art. Indigenous peoples -- Government relations. Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure. Land grants -- Maps. New Spain -- History -- 16th century. Castile (Spain) -- History -- 16th century. New Spain. Spain -- Castile. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12407898

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Other authors / contributors:	University of Oklahoma. Press.
ISBN:	9780806164960 0806164964
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Examines how indigenous artists crafted and used mapas de mercedes de tierras, land grant maps, to negotiate land disputes with Spanish authorities in sixteenth-century New Spain"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Distributing the lands of New Spain
Painting the Colonial World
Requesting the grant
Opposing the grant
Negotiating the grant
Conclusion.