Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This book highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment.

Foreword / Elizabeth Hill Boone ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction / Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis 1 Part I. Indigenous Functionaries: Ethnicity, Networks, and Institutions 1. Indigenous Intellectuals in Andean Colonial Cities / Gabriela Ramos 21 2. The Brothers Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl and Bartolome de Alva: Two "Native" Intellectuals of Seventeenth-Century Mexico / John Frederick Schwaller 39 3. Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru / John Charles 60 4. Making Law Intelligible: Networks of Translation in Mid-Colonial Oaxaca / Yanna Yannakakis 79 Part II. Native Historians: Sources, Frameworks, and Authorship 5. Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter in History / Susan Schroeder 107 6. The Concept of the Nahua Historian: Don Juan Zapata's Scholarly Tradition / Camilla Townsend 132 7. Cristobal Choquescasa and the Making of the Huarochiri Manuscript / Alan Durston 151 Part III. Forms of Knowledge: Genealogies, Maps, and Archives 8. Indigenous Genealogies: Lineage, History, and the Colonial Pact in Central Mexico and Peru / Maria Elena Martinez 9. The Dawning Places: Celestially Defined Land Maps, Titulos Primordiales, and Indigenous Statements of Territorial Possession in Early Colonial Mexico / Eleanor Wake 202 10. The Quilcaycamayoq: Making Indigenous Archives in Colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns 237 Conclusion / Tristan Platt 261 Bibliography 279 Contributors 307 Index 311