Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico

by Alex Hidalgo

Book Overview

Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern region of Oaxaca anchors an analysis of the way ethnically diverse societies produced knowledge in colonial settings. Mapmaking, proposes Hidalgo, formed part of an epistemological shift...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147731752X
• ISBN13: 9781477317525
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.2"