James Krippner‐Martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4980310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Krippner‐Martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Krippner‐Martínez |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍNEZ J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Images at War
Serge Gruzinski’s La guerre des images de Christophe Colomb à “Blade Runner” (1492– 2019) first appeared in 1990. Heather MacLean’s translation of this work into English is especially welcome, given the influence of Gruzinski’s work in Mexico and France during the previous decade. This is an imaginative, highly original, and ultimately path-breaking work. Though at times it is quite speculative and marked by contradictions and unexplored nuances,…
Late-Colonial Mexico
The seven books under review in this essay all contribute to general understanding of institutional, social, and cultural history in late-colonial Mexico, from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. But they do so in varying degrees and regionally diverse ways according to the research interests and styles of the authors
Rereading the Conquest
"Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martinez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacan, and of later writings using them, can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of missionary activity in early colonial Mexico.". "The book offers a fresh look at religion, politics, and the writing of …
Michoacán and Eden
Book Review| October 01 2001 Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico By Bernardino Verástique. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. i + 194 pp., introduction, map, illustrations, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth, 19.95 paper.) James Krippner-Martínez James Krippner-Martínez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 743–745. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48…
Invoking “Tato Vasco
Beyond a century, however, tradition is of no value. The pre-Hispanic Tarascans and those of a few generations ago are merged into “antepasados” and unless an historically known event is referred to, it is difficult to know to what period a tradition refers. —Ralph L. Beals, Pedro Carrasco, and Thomas McCorkle, 1944 This article examines the emergence and transformation of the legendary Vasco de Quiroga from the eighteenth to the twentieth centur…
Historia y sociedad
This fine collection of essays demonstrates the quality of historical research currently being produced in many of Mexico’s regional universities. The work provides a thorough introduction to the social and cultural history of colonial Michoacán, ably summarizing and at points moving beyond previous scholarship. The volume evaluates and refines many issues, such as cycles of epidemic and demographic decline, the influence of new market forces and…
La rebelion de los indios y la paz de los espanoles
La rebelión de los indios y la paz de los españolesVivir en frontera
Gods and Vampires
The vision of the victors
The Politics of Conquest
Therefore Most Illustrious Sir, the elders of this city of Michoacán present to Your Lordship this writing and relación, and I also in their name, not as author but rather as an interpreter of them. -Fray Jerónimo de Alcalá, ca. 1540. The Relación De Las Ceremonías Y Ritos Y Población Y Gobernación De Los Indios De La Provincia De Michoacán is a complex, and beautiful, colonial text. We know that it was compiled by a Franciscan missionary, most p…
The Politics of Conquest
Therefore Most Illustrious Sir, the elders of this city of Michoacán present to Your Lordship this writing and relación, and I also in their name, not as author but rather as an interpreter of them. -Fray Jerónimo de Alcalá, ca. 1540. The Relación De Las Ceremonías Y Ritos Y Población Y Gobernación De Los Indios De La Provincia De Michoacán is a complex, and beautiful, colonial text. We know that it was compiled by a Franciscan missionary, most p…
Invoking “Tato Vasco
Beyond a century, however, tradition is of no value. The pre-Hispanic Tarascans and those of a few generations ago are merged into “antepasados” and unless an historically known event is referred to, it is difficult to know to what period a tradition refers. —Ralph L. Beals, Pedro Carrasco, and Thomas McCorkle, 1944 This article examines the emergence and transformation of the legendary Vasco de Quiroga from the eighteenth to the twentieth centur…
The Politics of Conquest
Therefore Most Illustrious Sir, the elders of this city of Michoacán present to Your Lordship this writing and relación, and I also in their name, not as author but rather as an interpreter of them. -Fray Jerónimo de Alcalá, ca. 1540. The Relación De Las Ceremonías Y Ritos Y Población Y Gobernación De Los Indios De La Provincia De Michoacán is a complex, and beautiful, colonial text. We know that it was compiled by a Franciscan missionary, most p…
The vision of the victors
Gods and Vampires
La rebelion de los indios y la paz de los espanoles
La rebelión de los indios y la paz de los españolesVivir en frontera
Invoking “Tato Vasco
Beyond a century, however, tradition is of no value. The pre-Hispanic Tarascans and those of a few generations ago are merged into “antepasados” and unless an historically known event is referred to, it is difficult to know to what period a tradition refers. —Ralph L. Beals, Pedro Carrasco, and Thomas McCorkle, 1944 This article examines the emergence and transformation of the legendary Vasco de Quiroga from the eighteenth to the twentieth centur…
Historia y sociedad
This fine collection of essays demonstrates the quality of historical research currently being produced in many of Mexico’s regional universities. The work provides a thorough introduction to the social and cultural history of colonial Michoacán, ably summarizing and at points moving beyond previous scholarship. The volume evaluates and refines many issues, such as cycles of epidemic and demographic decline, the influence of new market forces and…
Rereading the Conquest
"Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martinez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacan, and of later writings using them, can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of missionary activity in early colonial Mexico.". "The book offers a fresh look at religion, politics, and the writing of …
Michoacán and Eden
Book Review| October 01 2001 Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico By Bernardino Verástique. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. i + 194 pp., introduction, map, illustrations, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth, 19.95 paper.) James Krippner-Martínez James Krippner-Martínez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 743–745. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48…
Late-Colonial Mexico
The seven books under review in this essay all contribute to general understanding of institutional, social, and cultural history in late-colonial Mexico, from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. But they do so in varying degrees and regionally diverse ways according to the research interests and styles of the authors
Images at War
Serge Gruzinski’s La guerre des images de Christophe Colomb à “Blade Runner” (1492– 2019) first appeared in 1990. Heather MacLean’s translation of this work into English is especially welcome, given the influence of Gruzinski’s work in Mexico and France during the previous decade. This is an imaginative, highly original, and ultimately path-breaking work. Though at times it is quite speculative and marked by contradictions and unexplored nuances,…
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