La Entrada Angelopolitana: Ritual and Myth in the Viceregal Entry in Puebla de Los Angeles

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy H. Fee
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles ◽  
Hernan Cortes ◽  
The City

The celebration of the entry of the viceroy was the most lavish, costly civic ritual in seventeenth-century Puebla de los Angeles. Staged by Puebla elites to honor the viceroy, this ritual event was orchestrated to assert and display the religiosity and superiority of Angelópolis (the literary title for Puebla). Invoking the journey of Hernán Cortés, the routing of the viceregal entry through Puebla prior to Mexico City heightened the competitive spirit of the Puebla Cabildo. The Puebla Cathedral, erected on the main plaza largely under the influence of Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza from 1640-49, functioned as the centerpiece and scenographie backdrop of this civic spectacle. Ephemeral, triumphal arches featuring allegorical, political emblems framed and gated the ritual entry. Designed by members of the oldest builders’ guild in New Spain, some of these arches were placed within the main portal of the Cathedral marking its role as the sanctum sanctorum of the city.

Portuguese Encomenderos de Negros and the Slave Trade within Mexico, 1600–1675

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles

This article focuses on local slaving agents, encomenderos de negros, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on notarial documents, Inquisition cases and investigations on contraband and tax evasion, the study explains how Portuguese intermediaries sold and distributed African captives in colonial Mexico between 1616 and 1639. The ability to extend credit was key to the success of these agents-on-commission. The article also explains why agents of the Grillo and Lomelín slaving monopoly (asiento) failed to replicate the success of their Lusophone predecessors in Nueva Veracruz, Mexico City and Puebla de los Ángeles in the 1660s and 1670s.

The Colonial City

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. BRADING
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Looking Back

This chapter demonstrates that while Spain had a clear vision of what the conquered Aztec city should be, the city of the conquistadors was relatively short for it was soon transformed by its Creole inhabitants who made their own identity pronounced on its building and culture. For 300 years, the city of Mexico was the capital of viceroyalty. It was the capital of New Spain and was the seat of the metropolitan archbishopric of Mexico. During the first decades of the seventeenth century, a generation of young Creoles entered the secular priesthood and the religious orders. They challenged the predominance of European Spaniards, affirmed their talents and identity, and started looking back to the glorious past the conquistadors had destroyed. However, the development of the city was constrained and limited by the city’s status as the viceregal capital of New Spain. Its status hence meant that the city depended on the political decisions and cultural influences emanating from the Spanish. Out of this tension, a creative process of change emerged in which different ethnic groups and cultures intermingled and conflicted to ensure that the social composition and character of Mexico City would be different from the other cities in Spanish America. However, these changes were not brought without due loss. Due to the conquest and the Old World diseases the Mexico population fell to the near brink of oblivion. These epidemics and natural calamities continued to afflict the city throughout the colonial period.

scholarly journals Learning the City

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Jonathan Banfill ◽  
Angélica Becerra ◽  
Jeannette Mundy
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The City

What role should California’s public universities play in addressing borders—transnational, as well as those among and within cities? This essay highlights the need to develop tools that will enable alternative way to produce knowledge—one that aims to co-create with community organizations by combining scholarly, artistic, and activist practices with one another. These images provide glimpses from a near future that has begun to dismantle the barriers within and between Los Angeles and Mexico City, building bridges instead of walls.

scholarly journals Particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon spatial variability and aging in Mexico City

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 15693-15721 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Thornhill ◽  
S. C. Herndon ◽  
T. B. Onasch ◽  
E. C. Wood ◽  
M. Zavala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Active Surface ◽  
Heterogeneous Reactions ◽  
Active Surface Area ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
Gaseous Species ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
The City

Abstract. As part of the Megacities Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations (MILAGRO) study in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area in March 2006, we measured particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other gaseous species and particulate properties at six locations throughout the city. The measurements were intended to support the following objectives: to describe spatial and temporal patterns in PAH concentrations, to gain insight into sources and transformations of PAHs, and to quantify the relationships between PAHs and other pollutants. Total particulate PAHs at the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (T0 supersite) located near downtown averaged 50 ng m−3, and aerosol active surface area averaged 80 mm2 m−3. PAHs were also measured on board the Aerodyne Mobile Laboratory, which visited six sites encompassing a mixture of different land uses and a range of ages of air parcels transported from the city core. Weak intersite correlations suggest that local sources are important and variable and that exposure to PAHs cannot be represented by a single regional-scale value. The relationships between PAHs and other pollutants suggest that a variety of sources and ages of particles are present. Among carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon dioxide, particulate PAHs are most strongly correlated with NOx. Mexico City's PAH-to-black carbon mass ratio of 0.01 is similar to that found on a freeway loop in the Los Angeles area and approximately 8–30 times higher than that found in other cities. Ratios also indicate that primary combustion particles are rapidly coated by secondary aerosol in Mexico City. If so, the lifetime of PAHs may be prolonged if the coating protects them against photodegradation or heterogeneous reactions.

Saintly Biography and the Cult of San Felipe de Jesús in Mexico City, 1597-1697

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius Conover
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Stable Form ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
City Center ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
The City

By the late seventeenth century, the cult of San Felipe de Jesús (ca. 1572-97), native of Mexico City and martyr in Japan, had taken a stable form in Mexico City, where he was born. Each year on February 5, the dignitaries of the viceregal capital gathered for a procession through the city center and a liturgical ceremony in the cathedral to praise the saint and his city, but for the rest of the year, residents largely ignored him. A multitude of social interests had led to this less-than-wholehearted embrace, among them rivalry between religious orders, civic self-promotion, and religious beliefs.

The Sound of Profession Ceremonies in Novohispanic Convents

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-170
Author(s):  
CESAR D. FAVILA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Immaculate Conception ◽  
Artistic Patronage

AbstractNuns in New Spain were celebrated with music and elaborate rituals when they took the habit and professed in a convent. These grandiose profession ceremonies drew in a host of urban citizens to the convent churches. Indeed, “more girls are smitten by the ceremony, than anything else,” remarked Fanny Calderón, wife of a Spanish ambassador who lived in Mexico City in the early 1840s, confirming that the iconic festivity endured well into the nineteenth century after Mexico's independence.This article on nuns’ professions is framed within the Order of the Immaculate Conception (Conceptionists). One of the largest extant collections of Novohispanic convent music comes from the Conceptionist community of the Santísima Trinidad, founded in seventeenth-century Puebla. The manuscripts are preserved at Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical “Carlos Chávez” in Mexico City, and they contain profession villancicos. My research on Conceptionist ritual books and biographies of noteworthy nuns allows me to place the villancicos within the wider context of Conceptionist devotion, convent race relations, and artistic patronage. The texts for the villancicos present women as the main subject of the compositions, which adorned a spectacular ritual also centered on women. The profession ceremony is, therefore, a valuable source to begin understanding Novohispanic women's contribution to music making.

Saintly Biography and the Cult of San Felipe de Jesús in Mexico City, 1597-1697

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (04) ◽  
pp. 441-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius Conover
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Stable Form ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
City Center ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
The City

By the late seventeenth century, the cult of San Felipe de Jesús (ca. 1572-97), native of Mexico City and martyr in Japan, had taken a stable form in Mexico City, where he was born. Each year on February 5, the dignitaries of the viceregal capital gathered for a procession through the city center and a liturgical ceremony in the cathedral to praise the saint and his city, but for the rest of the year, residents largely ignored him. A multitude of social interests had led to this less-than-wholehearted embrace, among them rivalry between religious orders, civic self-promotion, and religious beliefs.

scholarly journals Fruto, cruz y árbol de vida : diseño castellano de un reino de Sobrarbe

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Botella Ordinas
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Puebla De Los Angeles

En el siglo xvii se produjeron manifestaciones sobre Sobrarbe a las que se les ha dado un significado monolítico. Tras el análisis de los textos que forman parte de un proceso desde 1649 fiasta 1652 entre la Audiencia de México y el Cabildo de la catedral de Puebla de los Ángeles, podemos observar cómo surgen otros significados sobre un reino de Sobrarbe. Uno de ellos se incluía en el pasado de la Monarquía Católica.In the seventeenth century some manifestations about Sobrarbe can be found, to which have been given a monolithic meaning. After the analysis of the texts included in a lawsuit from 1649 to 1652 between the Hight Court of México and the cathedral's Chapter of Puebla de Los Ángeles, we are able to notice how other meanings about one kingdom of Sobrarbe appeared. One of this was involved in the past of Catholic Monarchy.

Political vs. linguistic borders

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Congosto Martín
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Mexican Spanish ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Political Border ◽  
The City

Abstract This paper analyses and studies the melodic behavior of five female informants of Mexican origin or descent, three of them residents in the city of Los Angeles in the United States, and two in Mexico, one in Mexico City and the other in Puebla. There are two main objectives: firstly, to contribute to the prosodic description of Mexican Spanish on both sides of the political border between both countries (declarative statements and neutral absolute interrogatives), and secondly, to verify the continuity between the Mexican-American intonation of LA and that of MX Mexican. We followed the methodology developed by the research groups that make up Amper-Mexico and Amper-California Los Angeles, within the framework of the international AMPER project.

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