Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume iii
- Introduction to Volume iii
- Part I Empire, Race and Ethnicity
- Part II Cultures of War and Violence
- Part III Intimate and Gendered Violence
- Part IV The State, Punishment and Justice
- Part V Popular Protest and Resistance
- Part VI Religious and Sacred Violence
- Part VII Representations and Constructions of Violence
- 29 African Ritual Violence: Close Combat in Western Africa and the Diaspora
- 30 Intercultural Emblems of Violence in the Spanish Colonisation of the Americas
- 31 Spectacles of Violence in China
- 32 Visualising Violence in Reformation Europe
- 33 Violence, Civil Society and European Civilisation
- Index
- References
30 - Intercultural Emblems of Violence in the Spanish Colonisation of the Americas
from Part VII - Representations and Constructions of Violence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume iii
- Introduction to Volume iii
- Part I Empire, Race and Ethnicity
- Part II Cultures of War and Violence
- Part III Intimate and Gendered Violence
- Part IV The State, Punishment and Justice
- Part V Popular Protest and Resistance
- Part VI Religious and Sacred Violence
- Part VII Representations and Constructions of Violence
- 29 African Ritual Violence: Close Combat in Western Africa and the Diaspora
- 30 Intercultural Emblems of Violence in the Spanish Colonisation of the Americas
- 31 Spectacles of Violence in China
- 32 Visualising Violence in Reformation Europe
- 33 Violence, Civil Society and European Civilisation
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter analyses four intercultural emblems of violence constructed by indigenous and Spanish artists in New Spain and Peru in the sixteenth century, when the region was under imperial Spanish rule. These highly stereotyped and conventional images combined the conventions of indigenous and European visual arts to present summarised and eloquent images of their violence, and this in turn facilitated Spain’s victory over the Aztec and Inca rulers, and also the imposition of Christianity over pagan religion. The detailed analysis of the contents, style and many layers of meaning of these emblems allows us to understand the diverse, even contradictory, cultural meanings of violence in this colonial situation.
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- The Cambridge World History of Violence , pp. 591 - 611Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020