The new political offices introduced after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica created new challenges and opportunities for indigenous elites and their supporters. This article traces the careers of three Kaqchikel-Maya families in sixteenth-century Guatemala and reveals a range of concerns about and strategies for maintaining and enhancing aspects of their preconquest social status.
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Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory
2012
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