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Recalling memory to not lose identity: the Texcocan pictographic histories of the XVI century
1 : Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(UCM)
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In central Mexico, at the edge of the end of the Spanish conquest, one of the most urgent concerns within the indigenous nobility consisted in trying to preserve all those privileges they had and maintained in the past several years. Instead of slowly disappear, being “absorbed” by the overwhelming power of the newborn institutions, these indigenous groups started competing between them, renegotiating their roles and showing unexpected degrees of resilience. In such a context, especially from the mid-sixteenth century, nobles struggled to prove either the legitimacy or the antiquity of their families, surrounded by the strong aspirations of a new rising middle class who based his claims on land ownership and its exploitation.
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