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DESCRIPTION:Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría  will give a Brown Bag Lunch presenta
 tion on Wednesday\, March 4\, at 12:15 pm. His talk it entitled “Making a 
 New Spain: The Material Worlds of Colonizers.”When Spanish colonizers and 
 their slaves arrived in Mexico City in the sixteenth century\, they entere
 d a world different from anything they had ever experienced. The variety o
 f temples and houses were different from those in Europe. The clothing tha
 t indigenous men wore\, mostly loincloths and capes\, made them look naked
  to colonizers\, who were more accustomed to seeing men in layers of cloth
 ing that covered the entire body. It is difficult to overstate the differe
 nces between the material world in Mexico City and the material world that
  colonizers had left across the Atlantic Ocean. Colonizers who wanted to c
 reate a material world that resembled the world they were used to\, had on
 e big challenge: how to make a new Spain. They had to figure out how to ma
 ke the kinds of houses that fit their ideas of proper housing. They had to
  figure out how to get the kinds of clothes that fit their sense of propri
 ety\, decency\, and hygiene. Indigenous people at the time also saw things
  that they had never experienced before\, including the clothing and armor
  of colonizers\, their livestock\, their steel swords and metal tools\, th
 eir wooden boxes\, and the many other things that colonizers brought with 
 them. There was a new challenge for indigenous people who were interested 
 in making these items: how to make the things that the Spanish brought. In
  this lecture\, Rodríguez-Alegría will present a brief overview of his boo
 k manuscript on the material worlds of colonizers in sixteenth century Mex
 ico City. The book is based on his original analysis of the probate invent
 ories of 39 Spanish colonizers who died in Mexico City between 1523 and 15
 90\, and on the houses of colonizers excavated by the Programa de Arqueolo
 gía Urbana in the historic center of Mexico City. To offer a glimpse of th
 e topics covered in the book\, he will provide summaries of the main findi
 ngs in the chapters on domestic architecture and clothing.Enrique Rodrígue
 z-Alegría is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austi
 n. He is the author of The Archaeology and History of Colonial Central Mex
 ico: Mixing Epistemologies (Cambridge\, 2016). He is also co-editor of The
  Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs (with Deborah L. Nichols\, Oxford\, 2017)\,
  The Menial Art of Cooking (with Sarah R. Graff\, University Press of Colo
 rado\, 2012)\, and a special section titled “Breaking and Entering the Eco
 system—Remembering Elizabeth M. Brumfiel” (with Deborah L. Nichols\, Ancie
 nt Mesoamerica Vol. 27\, Issue 01). As part of his efforts to bring anthro
 pology to broad publics\, he recently co-edited Xaltocan: arqueología\, hi
 storia y comunidad (with Christopher Morehart and Kristin De Lucia\, 2019)
 . This book is self-published to be distributed free to the community of X
 altocan\, where he has run archaeological projects since 2003. He also app
 ears in “The Story of God\, with Morgan Freeman” (season 1\, episode 1). H
 is current project is titled “The material worlds of colonial Mexico City\
 ,” and it has received support from the National Science Foundation\, a Na
 tional Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, and the University of Tex
 as at Austin.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Making a New Spain
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