The Relaciones Geográficas of the Spanish Indies, 1577-1586

Piedras que Hablan: Memoria, Sincretismo Cultural y Arquitectónico (Norte de Yucatán siglo XVI)

“…Con detalles específicos reunidos por alcaldes mayores, corregidores y otras autoridades asignadas para responder el cuestionario. En el caso de Yucatán los encomenderos se ayudaron de igual forma de los indios principales caciques o ancianos (Cline, 1964).…”

The Last Acolhua: Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Elite Native Historiography in Early New Spain

“…6 Thus, the chronicler's intensely patriotic attachment to the Acolhua realm was, if not contrived, at least intellectual and retrospective rather than innate and inevitable, a pragmatic necessity as much as an inborn reflex. After all, for every Alva Ixtlilxochitl-a castizo outsider performing as a cacique insider-there were numerous examples of the converse: indigenous elites whose economic and political interests led them to live among, intermarry with, and adopt the culture of their invaders (Pérez-Rocha and Tena 2000, [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Indeed, we may legitimately wonder whether Alva Ixtlilxochitl's corpus would have been as extensive, focused, and persistent had his genealogical and ethnic ties to the preconquest order been more direct, unimpeachable, and obvious to his peers and rivals.…”

“…The centrality of Nezahualcoyotl within the Acolhua historiographical tradition is clear in the most important alphabetic account to appear before Alva Ixtlilxochitl's own, the 1582 relación geográfica (geographical relation) of Tetzcoco-the town's response to King Felipe II's famous inquiry into the geographical and human histories of his domains (Cline 1964). Penned by Juan Bautista de Pomar-a mestizo grandson of Nezahualpilli and a close ally of the Pimentels-the report iterates the preferred historical narrative of the descendants of Nezahualcoyotl.…”

Heterogeneidad Léxica en Las Relaciones Geográficas De La Gobernación De Yucatán

“…Esta lista de preguntas de las RG se elaboraba con un número determinado de ítems que se enviaban desde España. La finalidad social y política de las RG era recabar información acerca de la cultura, clima, distribución del trabajo, economía, historia, lenguas, naturaleza, población prehispánica, etc., para conocer las circunstancias de los que actuaban localmente en nombre del Imperio (Cline, 1964;Mignolo, 1990;Barrera, 2006;Brendecke, 2012).…”