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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 1. Signatures of Indigenous alcaldes of Atlaltlauhcan, don Diego Jacobo Alto (first line, left) and don Pablo Hernández (second line). Relación geográfica of Atlatlauhcan, 8r. Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. More
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 561–583.
Published: 01 October 2011
... the community. This study explores how factional interests in Papantla divided the community across racial lines. It particularly considers how one group of native leaders who opposed a corrupt alcalde mayor (Spanish magistrate) were able to foster his removal from office and how corresponding actions...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 739–764.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Martin Nesvig In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 669–698.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of a gobernador (governor) or alcalde (high ranking 672 Dana Velasco Murillo leader and council member), and were mainly limited to religious activities, they did enable indigenous people to organize, promote, and protect the community. Throughout the colonial...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 July 2012
... thereafter as other survivors of the invasion were gradually shepherded into the town. For example, indigenous alcaldes (magistrates), an index of the establishment of formal town govern- ment, do not appear in the Xajil Chronicle until 1557, twelve years after the nominal founding of the town. House...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 July 2014
... phrasing, such an analysis draws our attention away from “what happened” between Indian women and men and toward “what happened that the law sees.”8 Indeed, Spanish district magistrates, called alcaldes mayores, only saw part of what happened in the regions of Teposcolula and Villa Alta, which were...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 325–350.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., as the Audiencia of Mexico ordered them reinstated after the alcalde mayor had removed them from their posts as punishment for their alleged transgressions. This measure was permanently reversed in 1736 after an inquiry led by a scandalized Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta, viceroy and archbishop of Mexico...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 403–432.
Published: 01 July 2001
... appeared before the 11 alcalde mayor of Teposcolula and Yanhuitlan, Claudio Joseph Girard, to explain that the village did not possess a ‘‘fundo legal’’ because of the very infertile environment that surrounded the village, which only allowed...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... The traditional Maya caciques remained in power initially, but several other village offices were introduced as older Maya officials were removed from local government.30 The three main types of officials introduced by this new república de indios system of town government were alcaldes...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 721–747.
Published: 01 October 2013
... with their own officials (gobernadores, alcaldes, regidores), who would be responsible for delivering goods and men to the colonizers, as well as communal lands (ejidos) on which to grow crops to feed themselves and to pay tribute. The results of these policies on Central America’s indigenous popu...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 445–466.
Published: 01 July 2010
... in these regions gradually declined. Fifth, aspects of the caciques’ important judicial role in pre-​Hispanic times were now assumed by Spanish magistrates, the corregidores and alcaldes mayores (Gibson 1964: 167; Taylor 1972: 49). The cacicazgo thus became a complex, hybrid feature of colonial life...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 381–413.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., missionaries, or military leaders under the guise of the repartimiento system. Personal services often took the form of domestic labor, where an indio temporarily served in the house of a Spaniard or alcalde mayor , sometimes for up to a year at a time. Families and fields were abandoned, leaving...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 751–779.
Published: 01 October 2015
.../Power/History/Nature . In Reimagining Political Ecology . Biersack A. Greenberg J. B. , eds. Pp. 3 – 40 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Bolland O. Nigel 1987 Alcaldes and Reservations: British Policy toward the Maya in Late Nineteenth Century Belize . América Indígena...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 91–123.
Published: 01 January 2009
... much like those performed a century earlier. The entire event was centered on the palace (aniñe) itself, the Spanish alcalde mayor (magistrate), giving the keys to the new occupants. Possession of the palace symbolized succession of the entire rulership; there was no mention or survey...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 611–649.
Published: 01 July 2002
...) Copyright © by the American Society for Ethnohistory. Tseng 2002.8.28 08:47 612 David Cahill father of the alcalde mayor de los ingas nobles, Don Juan Sicos Inga, arranged...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 195–225.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Cruz, church fiscal (priest’s assistant) Diego Diaz, alcalde (municipal officer) Juan Bautista, and alguacil mayor (chief constable) Juan Bautista. 16 Although their testimonies had trivial differences regarding small facts, their stories all corroborated with Zambrano’s and each other’s...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 320–321.
Published: 01 April 2017
... as corregidores , alcaldes mayores , and governors) play in representing the bureaucracy and the colonial state to indigenous peoples? And most critically, what did these practices mean for indigenous peoples’ lives and livelihoods? In this book, Robert W. Patch provides a detailed look at the repartimiento...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 569–588.
Published: 01 October 2009
... the Audiencia of New Spain or the alcalde mayor (Spanish district governor) of Tlaxcala, but they take the history of the lands, and the gene- alogies of the people involved, back to pre-Spanish times. Some of them are in Nahuatl, the indigenous language, and many of these have been pub- lished...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 405–406.
Published: 01 April 2015
.... $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Jessica Joyce Christie, East Carolina University Waskar Ari narrates the history of the AMP (Alcaldes Mayores Particu- lares), a political network of indigenous activists that created almost five hundred cells in southwestern Bolivia and disseminated their message...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 465–487.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Figure 1. Signatures of Indigenous alcaldes of Atlaltlauhcan, don Diego Jacobo Alto (first line, left) and don Pablo Hernández (second line). Relación geográfica of Atlatlauhcan, 8r. Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. ...
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