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An Overview Of Inga Clendinnen's Ambivalent Conquests

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In Inga Clendinnen’s Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570, the word, “ambivalence,” as the book is entitled, suggests to both the Spaniards’ purpose of conquering the Yucatan and the tolerance by the Maya of the conversion to Christianity. The conquest of the Yucatan can be outlined, as Clendinnen explains, “Then, finally, I turn to the Maya; to discover, through analysis of deeply partisan Spanish accounts, what they did, and from their own few and fragmentary writings what they meant by what they did.” She argued that this is because of the existence of the Aztec Empire. “The Cortés expedition effectively ignored Yucatan, making landfall only at Cozumel Island. That pattern was to persist for the decade took to dismember and to distribute the spoils of the Aztec empire. With the prospect of Mexican riches the inhospitable coasts of Yucatan had lost all attraction.” …show more content…

These portions take the audience into what is the main element of the book: The 1562 trials of idolatry managed by the Franciscan friars. “To penetrate further into how the Maya lords discharged their distinctive responsibilities in the new situation of the Spanish regime, what meanings they discerned in the friars’ preachings, and how those meanings were changed in the grasping, we must enter the area of experience briefly, ambiguously revealed in the testimonies of 1562: the incomparably expressive world of ritual

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