Class Posts Remembering the Past, Contesting the Past Posted: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 In Conclusion Posted: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 Ending Comments Posted: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 Some Final Thoughts Posted: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Posted: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 Memory and memorialization Posted: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 Two Loosely Related Thoughts Posted: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 Peoples of the Book Posted: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 Could it be … Satan?! Posted: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 A Literary Atlantic Posted: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 Pan-America Posted: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 Colonization and conquest, a comparison Posted: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 The Geopolitics of Evil Posted: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 The devil has a beach head in America? Seriously……. Posted: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 So how do you posses the Americas??? Anybody??? Posted: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 On Ceremonies of Possession Posted: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 Differentiating the Conquerors Posted: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 Differentiating the Conquerors Posted: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 The contexts of conquest Posted: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 Ceremonies of Possession Posted: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 Summary Posted: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 Are pens, gestures, and astrolabes mightier than swords? Posted: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 On Corn Mothers, Absent and Otherwise Posted: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 Actually, the Corn Mother is still around—but structuralism has left the building… Posted: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 Can someone please explain what happened to Gutiérrez’s idea!!! Posted: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 Can someone please explain what happened to Gutiérrez’s idea!!! Posted: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 Where have all the Corn Mothers gone? Posted: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 The horrible title is not the only problem Posted: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 More Mythbusting Posted: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 The Cross of Coronado Posted: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 Corn Mother Commentaries Posted: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 Corn Mothers Commentaries Posted: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 Trexler Summary Posted: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 On Floating Phalluses and Universal Berdaches Posted: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Sex and Conquest Posted: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 On Passivity and Virginal Readings… Posted: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Moon Goddesses and Sex and Conquest Posted: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Power Struggles Posted: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Synopsis-- From Moon Goddesses to Virgins Posted: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Sexuality, religion, and power Posted: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 On Malintzin/Dona Marina/Malinche Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Malintzin Malintzin Malintzin Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Malintzin’s Choices Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Fun times and Choices??? Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Such a thoroughly enjoyable read … Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Still a Mystery Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 Malintzin’s Many Contexts Posted: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 On the Uses of the Past and Its Constructions Posted: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 Executions are fun….as long as you’re not dying Posted: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 Rereading the Conquest Posted: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 Conquest? Posted: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 A Refreshing Reread Posted: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 Read, Read, then reread……..how to understand the past Posted: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 Constructing the Past Posted: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 A couple of final links to images of interest… Posted: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 A link to something I couldn’t find in print for the bibliography… Posted: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 Traces and Many Centers Posted: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 Indigenous Views of the Conquest Posted: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 Guatemala, Native Accounts, Sadistic conquistadors, and paperwork makes the society work…… Posted: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 “But if you try sometimes…..” Posted: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 Restall, et al., et. al. Posted: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 Invading History Posted: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 Ziggy Stardust Posted: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 On James Lockhart Posted: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 Lockhart and Gibson and the Indies Posted: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 Socializing Myself Posted: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 Gibson, Lockhart, and the Merits of Analysis Posted: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 Of Things of the Conquest Posted: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 For My Non-Linguist Classmates Posted: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 On Lockhart Posted: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 Synopsis-- Charles Gibson, Aztecs Under Spanish Rule Posted: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 Synopsis-- James Lockhart, Of Things of the Indies Posted: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 Thoughts on Lockhart Posted: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Five Pictures of the Conquest Posted: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 On Prescott-- How and Why Posted: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 On Prescott-- How and Why Posted: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 The Big Men……….et al. Posted: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 Prescott and the “History” Posted: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 History? Posted: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 The history of Mexico according to Prescott…… Posted: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 Visual View of the Conquest Posted: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 Visual View of the Conquest Posted: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico Posted: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 On William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico Posted: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 Prescott Photo Essay Posted: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 Ready to carry the conquering eagles to another world Posted: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Prescott Photo Essay Posted: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 Structure in Cortes’s Letters Posted: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 On Cortes-- The One and the Many Posted: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 On Letters from Mexico, by Hernán Cortés Posted: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Hernan Cortes Letters from Mexico Posted: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Unsurprises and Surprises Posted: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 The Many Letters of Cortes…… Posted: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Cortes-- The Machiavellian Conqueror and Missionary Posted: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Cortes, Written by Himself Posted: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Some thoughts about letters Posted: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 On Diaz, iii.-- Castile! Castile! Tlaxcala! Tlaxcala! Posted: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 On Diaz, ii.-- Dona Marina, Somewhere Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 On Diaz, i.-- Remembering Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 What exactly went wrong in Mexico???? Días’ account of the conquest Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Bernal Diaz — Annotated Bibliography Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Bernal Diaz – A summary of sorts Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Expectations Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s Discovery and Conquest of Mexico Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Bernal Diaz and the “Discovery and Conquest” Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Latest Reading Posted: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz Posted: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 Seven Myths Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 On Myth-Making and Other Concerns Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 On Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Apes and gods and steel oh my! Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 A few thoughts on Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 A few thoughts on Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Latest Reading Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 A few thoughts on Restall’s “Seven Myths” Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Salve! Posted: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 Testing??? Posted: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 Hello world! Posted: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 Hello world! Posted: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 Cheers! Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 Hello world! Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 Hello world! Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 First Post Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 Hello world! Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 zotero bibliography Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 Registering your own blog Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 Quito á la Condamine Posted: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 Second poll up on the Andean Studies blog Posted: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 Poll on 16th Century Andean Historians Posted: Sun, 27 Sep 2009
Actually, the Corn Mother is still around—but structuralism has left the building… Posted: Mon, 05 Apr 2010
Guatemala, Native Accounts, Sadistic conquistadors, and paperwork makes the society work…… Posted: Mon, 01 Mar 2010