HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syncretism, George Kubler, Transculturation
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The spaniards destroyed everything because they wanted to impose their social, political, and religious systems on the indigenous. Some missionaries thought it important to produce documentation of the natives behavior to better understand (and later convert) them. The florentine codex was written in three languages: the native, spanish, and pictoral. The colonial plan of cholula (1985: also written by george kubler, the foundation of the colonial city was based on its superposition on the new spanish city. On the colonial extinction of the motifs of pre-columbian art . He relates the study of native forms in catholicism after 1519 with indigenous motifs to find the remnants of american indian art in the columbian era. Thus, any surviving remnants can only be understood through the repetition of their appearance. The only things that survived the conquest were, in essence, utilitarian (useful in some way to the conquistadors)
