Mapping of New Spain Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas

To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. In The Mapping of New Spain, Barbara Mundy illuminates both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these maps and traces the reshaping of indigene world views in the wake of colonization.Mundy, Barbara E. is the author of 'Mapping of New Spain Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas', published 2000 under ISBN 9780226550978 and ISBN 0226550974.