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Image one: E-book titled The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico (2017) - synopsis: This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century. In this expansive account, Lisa Sousa focuses on four native groups in highland Mexico—the Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Mixe—and traces cross-cultural similarities and differences in the roles and status attributed to women in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mesoamerica.
Image two: E-book titled Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest: Response and Continuity of Indigenous Pottery Technology in Central Mexico (2012) - synopsis: This work presents insights into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous world by focusing on pottery technology in the Nahua (Aztec) region of Central Mexico. The late pre-colonial, early colonial, and present-day characteristics of this industry are explored in order to come to a renewed understanding of its long-term development.
