Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4869604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Overmyer-Velázquez |
| SIGNATURE | OVERMYER-VELÁZQUEZ R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indian, Nation, and State in Neoliberal Mexico
This paper examines the dilemma inherent in the relationship between indigenous peoples and the Mexican state, focusing on an indigenous movement of Guerrero, the Consejo Guerrerense 500 Años de Resistencia Indígena (the Consejo), during the 1990s. The dilemma is that, with neoliberalism, the indigenous peoples have attracted the state's attention, but only to the extent that they do what the state wants them to do (‘participating’ in local devel…
Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary
Christian Morality Revealed in New Spain: The Inimical Nahua Woman in Book Ten of the Florentine Codex
The introduction of Spanish Christianity to the Central Valley of Mexico brought an understanding of the world that was radically different from the Nahua (Aztec) worldview. The Florentine Codex , a sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan text, illustrates how the Christian moral system upset traditional Nahua notions of sexuality and proper relations between men and women. With its emphasis on the conflict between good and evil and its explicit gen…
Indian, Nation, and State in Neoliberal Mexico
This paper examines the dilemma inherent in the relationship between indigenous peoples and the Mexican state, focusing on an indigenous movement of Guerrero, the Consejo Guerrerense 500 Años de Resistencia Indígena (the Consejo), during the 1990s. The dilemma is that, with neoliberalism, the indigenous peoples have attracted the state's attention, but only to the extent that they do what the state wants them to do (‘participating’ in local devel…
Christian Morality Revealed in New Spain: The Inimical Nahua Woman in Book Ten of the Florentine Codex
The introduction of Spanish Christianity to the Central Valley of Mexico brought an understanding of the world that was radically different from the Nahua (Aztec) worldview. The Florentine Codex , a sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan text, illustrates how the Christian moral system upset traditional Nahua notions of sexuality and proper relations between men and women. With its emphasis on the conflict between good and evil and its explicit gen…
Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary
Indian, Nation, and State in Neoliberal Mexico
This paper examines the dilemma inherent in the relationship between indigenous peoples and the Mexican state, focusing on an indigenous movement of Guerrero, the Consejo Guerrerense 500 Años de Resistencia Indígena (the Consejo), during the 1990s. The dilemma is that, with neoliberalism, the indigenous peoples have attracted the state's attention, but only to the extent that they do what the state wants them to do (‘participating’ in local devel…
Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Morality (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Christianity (1 works)