... Ancient Oaxaca. By Richard E. Blanton, Gary M. Feinman, Stephen A. Kowalewski, and Linda M. Nicholas. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ix pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, bibliography, bibliographic essay, index. cloth, paper.) The Shadow of Monte Alban: Politics and Historiography...

... in Chochon and barrio in colonial Spanish. Thanks to the discovery of a remarkable set of colonial writings in the Chochon language from Tamazulapan (Oaxaca, Mexico)—complemented by secondary documentation, interviews with elders, and toponymy—it has been possible to trace the sindi from precolonial times...

... in the south, an area of 252,612 square miles. The author organizes her archaeological odyssey into seven geographic sections: West Central Mexico, Central Mexico (around Querétaro), Cen- tral Mexico (around Mexico City), Oaxaca, Central Gulf Coast, South- ern Gulf Coast, and Chiapas. Thorough...

... Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, and Edward B. Dwyer. (Austin: University of Texas Press, xxi + pp.,  illustrations, preface, contributors, introduction, chapter bibliographies, glossary, index. paper.) The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca. Edited by Kathryn...

... and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca. By Jeffrey H. Cohen. (Austin: University of Texas Press, xiv + pp., preface, introduction,  b&w photos,  tables,  maps, bibliography, index. cloth, paper.) Kimberly Grimes, University of Delaware In Cooperation and Community, Jeffrey Cohen...

.... 10.1215/00141801-2007-072 346 Book Reviews Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala. Edited by Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...Luis Sánchez-López Abstract This article explores the politics of citizenship in Zapotec communities in nineteenth-century Oaxaca, Mexico. Several studies discuss how Indigenous peoples were incorporated into the Mexican nation-state during this period, but few have examined how state law...

...Lisa Sousa; Kevin Terraciano This article features the transcription, translation, and analysis of two primordial titles, written in the Mixtec and Nahuatl languages, and a large map. Two indigenous communities in the Valley of Oaxaca attempted to lay claim to disputed territory by presenting...

... Autónoma de México. The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca. By Kevin Terraciano. (Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv + 514 pp., introduction, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, maps, figures. $65.00 cloth.) RobertM.HillII,Tulane University In this splendidly produced...

...Scott Eastman The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850. By Peter Guardino. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. ix + 405 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. $84.95 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Book Reviews...

... of Being In-between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca. By Yanna Yannakakis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxi + 290 pp., preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 cloth.) David Tavárez, Vassar College The relatively large...

... the liquid substance to review and annotate maps to fit legal protocols. Combining a sample of maps from Oaxaca with botanical histories, chronicles, and orthographic treatises, this article traces the use of ingredients such as rocks, plants, liquids, roots, and soil as they made their way from the physical...

...Patrick J. McNamara This article offers a close reading of two sites of memory in Oaxaca's Sierra Zapoteca: a community museum about mining in the region and the ruins of a giant textile factory. While the factory ruins are difficult to find and effectively hidden by the Zapotec peasants using...

...Bianca Premo This article reassesses the notions of culture that are tied up with our understandings of gender and ethnicity in colonial Oaxaca. It examines the lawsuits indigenous women leveled against husbands and lovers in the eighteenth century to revisit some canonical scholarly claims about...

... Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887–1943. By Edward Wright-Rios. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 361 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliog- raphy, index. $23.95 paper.) SilverMoon, West Virginia University Faith is a difficult thing to research...

... in the discipline that Imperial Subjects reads like a survey of the field as much as like a collection on a specialized topic. DOI 10.1215/00141801-​2010-​029 After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Edited by Jeffrey P. Blomster. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008...

...Matthew D. Esposito [email protected] Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico . By A. S. Dillingham . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2021 . xiv + 254 pp., prologue, introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $30.00...

...Jamie E. Forde Abstract This article takes the community of San Miguel Achiutla, located in the Mixtec highlands of Oaxaca, as a case study through which to examine the complex involvements of Indigenous pueblos de indios of Mexico in the early modern dynamics of globalization. Drawing from both...

... and the administration of justice in Oaxaca, Mexico. The article begins by situating Oaxaca’s laws within the context of broader neoliberal reforms in Latin America characterized by the promulgation of multicultural constitutions recognizing the legal jurisdiction and cultural autonomy of Indigenous communities. Some...