This project deals with the politics of image and the organization of the visible through the colonial gaze. It intervenes in the discussions of representation and power distribution that have already been central themes in Colonial Studies, but it does so from the perspective o…
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This thesis looks at the people of Nueva Vizcaya's history of resistance to incorporation into the state during the colonial age, and how this history is connected to the contemporary context in the Sierra Tarahumara. To do this, I use and frame the concepts of community, resist…
For over four centuries, the Mexican city of Puebla de los Angeles has been recognized as the most important producer of maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) in Latin America. Referred to in colonial documents as loza, this ware enjoyed the widest distribution of any ceramic made i…
My dissertation is entitled "Idolatry and the construction of the Spanish Empire". It is a study of the role that the shifting concept of idolatry played in the spiritual and territorial conquest of the Americas, in particular in colonial Mexico, as well as its relation to the s…
Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico examines the emergence of Catholicism and its local expressions among Africans and their descendants in seventeenth-century New Spain. In that century, New Spain (the Spanish term for colonial Mexico) was home…
In this thesis, the staple food of Mesoamerica features in a pair of comparison studies each containing two representations, one from colonial Mexico and another from the contemporary Southwest US. The association of the tortilla with indigeneity in these four representations si…
The following work undertakes a project which has been within the scope of recent studies in race and racism, especially at a level which seeks to understand the impact of racial dynamics beyond the scope of the US. That is, in this essay I hope to return to the question of raci…