Ceramics and the Spanish conquest

By Gilda Hernández Sánchez

Subjects: Antiquities, Pottery craft, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, Material culture, Indians of Mexico, Mexico, antiquities, Indian pottery, Indians of mexico, antiquities, Mexico, Indian pottery, mexico, History, Mexico, history, conquest, 1519-1540

Description: Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous Mesoamerican world after the Spanish conquest. Readership: All those interested in sixteenth century colonialism, the colonial period in Middle America, material culture, ancient and present-day ceramics, as well as in cultural continuity and change.