caa a22 4500 388037318 CHVBK 20180307125009.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1007772 doi S0003161500026808 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1007772 Boyer Richard Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia Respect and Identity: Horizontal and Vertical Reference Points in Speech Acts [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Boyer] This essay presumes the baroque texture of colonial Mexico in its multiple styles, voices, and peoples differentiated by race, ethnicity, locale, culture, place of origin, position, wealth, and clientele. It also presumes, using Marina S. Brownlee's words, a "selfreflective and distorting” tendency of baroque societies to spin off countercurrents and transpositions of dominant culture. "Profusion of detail, hierarchy, and contrast,” Irving Leonard's well traveled characterization of the Mexican baroque, could not be confined easily to fixed orderings and orthodoxies. From the first, in fact, the project to order the colony created more rather than less diversity by "introduc[ing] new, upsetting influences.” These influences—new cultural valuations, "a new, exclusive religion, and new laws and procedures”— may have "unified a congeries of independent states and empires.” But they also combined in different ways, rates, and degrees with pre-existing and newly emerging political and cultural forms. Not as a uniform flood plain but as diverse sedimentations, the colony was formed by back-eddies and cross currents more than a single stream. Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1998 The Americas Cambridge University Press 54/4(1998-04), 491-509 0003-1615 54:4<491 1998 54 TAM https://doi.org/10.2307/1007772 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1007772 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Boyer Richard Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Americas Cambridge University Press 54/4(1998-04), 491-509 0003-1615 54:4<491 1998 54 TAM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge