Painted Memories and Space in the So-Called ‘Lienzo de Yatuni’
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v41i2.7-36Keywords:
lienzo, pictorial document, Indigenous cartography, historical memory, Zapotecs, colonial periodAbstract
This article analyses a pictorial document of indigenous tradition from the colonial period, known as ‘Lienzo de Yatuni,’ originating from the highland Zapotec village of the same name. The analysis was conducted through the disciplinary perspectives of art history, archaeology, history, historical geography, and, to a lesser extent, linguistics. Additionally, spatial analysis tools, such as GIS, were employed. Through this work, it was possible to make a proposal about the tentative date of manufacture of the document at the beginning of the 18th century in the context of land compositions and some local lawsuits. We conclude that the document preserves two centuries of historical memory of the people who created it.
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