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December 20, 2006
Alessandra Russo El realismo circular: Tierras, espacios y paisajes de la cartografía novohispana, siglos XVI y XVII México City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2004. 250 pp.; 351 ills. Paper $36.00 (9703209831)
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In the last fifteen years, scholarship on indigenous imagery from colonial Latin America has grown substantially in breadth and sophistication. Across the 1990s, as scholars rejected the dichotomy of resistance to colonial rule versus acquiescence, studies of indigenous agency and creativity became prominent, as did analyses of visual culture and ethnic identity. Recently, as more nuanced understandings of colonial processes have developed (especially in the fields of anthropology and history), interpretive frameworks have again begun...