From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico

by Leo Cabranes-Grant

In this innovative study, Leo Cabranes-Grant analyzes four intercultural events in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that took place between 1566 and 1690. Rather than relying on racial labels to describe alterations of identity, Cabranes-Grant focuses on experimentation, rehearsal, and the interaction between bodies and objects. His analysis shows how scenarios are invested with affective qualities, which in turn enable cultural and semiotic change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810133911
• ISBN13: 9780810133914
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"