Dos siglos de historia compartida: México y Nueva Orleans

El Stone Center for Latin American Studies de la Universidad de Tulane y el Consulado de México en Nueva Orleans tienen el gusto de invitarle al panel que se llevará a cabo como parte de la conmemoración del Bicentenario del establecimiento del Consulado de México en Nueva Orleans.

Tres expertos académicos discutirán la rica historia compartida entre México y la ciudad de Nueva Orleans. Los temas a tratar incluyen:

The Indigenous Probanzas: A Comparative Analysis of Rhetorical Discourse in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala and the Pech Chronicles.

After the wars of conquest in Mesoamerica during the sixteenth century, a complex process of reorganization of the Indigenous population started, with social, political, and economic implications. The Indigenous nobility, some of whom fought alongside the Spaniards, quickly adapted to the new political regime through various legal strategies to keep their privileges as principal lords. One of these involved elaborating manuscripts and visual stories similar to the European legal documents known as probanzas de méritos.

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