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in Cacicas , Escribanos , and Landholders: Indigenous Women’s Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703–1832
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Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 2. The Testament of Doña Ana María de la Cruz Alpizar (cacica and principal) records the name of her late husband: Diego Sánchez Barba. Archive: Archivo General de Notarías (AGdN), Estado de México. Photo: Melton Villanueva #8166768
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Figure 2. The Testament of Doña Ana María de la Cruz Alpizar (cacica and principal) records the name of her late husband: Diego Sánchez Barba. Archive: Archivo General de Notarías (AGdN), Estado de México. Photo: Melton Villanueva #8166768 ...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 445–466.
Published: 01 July 2010
... link between sacred ancestors of the past and political
rulers of the present” (Terraciano 2000: 19). It also generated a written
record and title useful to the Spanish state, and the cacica was ultimately
confirmed in office by the viceroy. Thus traditional seigniorial rights...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 15–45.
Published: 01 January 2003
... and ranching operation, as did his brothers Tomás and
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Juan. Even though he was married to a cacica, Nicolás was frequently at
odds with his Indian neighbors, who in went to court to complain...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 269–287.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a piece of land was a common way for indigenous peoples to obtain cash (Pizzigoni 2012 : 159), it could lead to “interpersonal strains and litigation” (Kellogg 1995 : 208). 28 If there were no legitimate heir to a cacicazgo, a cacique could name one, as did the cacica of Cuilapa (Guatemala), who...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 91–123.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and Their People . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1974 Marital Alliance in the Political Integration of Mixtec Kingdoms. American Anthropologist 76 : 297 -311. 1984 The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Times . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1997 Mixteca Cacicas: Status, Wealth...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 477–491.
Published: 01 October 2022
... by the father prefect, Juan Félix Martínez. According to this account, a cacica (a name given to noble Native women), doña Lorenza Clara, had donated in her will three houses; other individuals had bequeathed plots of land, and others chinampas. Traditionally the priests invested the revenue received from...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 383–392.
Published: 01 April 2006
... of South American Indians. Vol. 4, The Circum-Caribbean Tribes . J. H. Steward, ed. Pp. 507 -46. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin no. 143. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. Sued-Badillo, J. 1979 La mujer indígena y su sociedad . 2nd ed. Rio Piedras, PR: Antillana. 1985 Las cacicas...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 195–217.
Published: 01 April 2013
.... They lived in kin-based villages called chiefdoms
that possessed between five hundred and a few thousand inhabitants at the
time of the Spaniards’ arrival. These chiefdoms were then divided into two
social groups, the naborías (the laborers who paid tribute to their ruling
cacique or cacica...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 259–280.
Published: 01 April 2002
... and Ceremonial Space in Prehistoric Puerto Rico. Latin American Antiquity 10 : 209 -38. Sued Badillo, J. 1979 La mujer indígena y su sociedad . Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Editorial Antillana. Sued Badillo, J. 1985 Las cacicas indoantillanas. Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña 87...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 689–726.
Published: 01 October 2005
... The Geography of Strabo . H. L. Jones, trans. Loeb Classical Library Series. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Sued-Badillo, Jalil 1985 Las cacicas indoantillanas. Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña 87 : 17 -26. 1986 El mito indoantillano de las mujeres sin hombres. Boletín de...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 363–383.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the Columbus government with cotton in 1496, after his death his successor, the cacica Anacaona, did not fulfill her tribute deliveries. Her actions are explained, at least initially, by her alliance with the rebel Roldán. Why would she pay tribute to the Spaniards at Santo Domingo when she believed herself...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 277–299.
Published: 01 April 2014
... and Indigenous Ideology in Early Colo-
nial Teposcolula: The Casa de la Cacica: A Building at the Edge of Oblivion,”
Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas 17, no. 66 (1995): 45–84; Kevin
Terraciano, The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through
Eighteenth...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2023
.... Conditions were not always ideal. As Soto barked to one uncooperative lord, it was the mico ’s (chief’s) obligation to “furnish him with tamemes for carrying” (89). Soto detained leaders like the cacica of Cofitachequi, who then “ordered the Indians to come and carry the loads from one town to the other...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 333–369.
Published: 01 April 2005
...; and as the cacica saw that the
Christiansmademuchofthem,shesaid:‘DoyouthinkthisisalotGo
to Talimeco, my town, and you will find so many that you will be unable
to carry them on your horses The Spaniards complied, and Rangel also
described the larger temple and the chief’s house they saw there:
In the temple...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 361–391.
Published: 01 July 2008
... by this time. In the eighteenth-century
Nahuatl texts in Pizzigoni 2007, no men are called cacique, and only one
woman “cacique and principal.” In the late San Bartolomé corpus the term
cacique/cacica is absent.25
Ritual and Religious Aspects
When it comes to rituals, funerals, and religious...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 131–150.
Published: 01 January 2003
... and foreclosed on them when they could
not pay. He acquired properties owned by the cacica Petra Aja de Lara,
including the rancho of San Francisco el Grande in Huajolotitlán in this
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 403–432.
Published: 01 July 2001
... obtained the original tasaciónWhatismoststriking is
that cacica doña Catarina Salomé argued in court that the codices had been de-
faced by her enemy, to destroy the proof of her son’s legal rights. Clearly this
has been in fact the case with the Porfirio Díaz
Surprisingly, however...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 467–495.
Published: 01 July 2014
... note 1), this is taking an interpretant as an object (reality).
For example, according to some chronicles (e.g., Las Casas 1967: 308), the
cacica (female chief) Anacaona lived in her husband’s village, cacique (chief)
Caonabo. Based on this, some scholars have inferred that Amerindians...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 497–527.
Published: 01 October 2017
... son Iztac Quihuantzin (or Iztaccoatzin), who was baptized as Pedro de Alvarado and died in 1547. After Iztac Quihuantzin’s death, his wife Ana Sosa acted as cacica until around 1564, when her son Melchior de Alvarado took her place as the Tututepec cacique (Berlin 1947 ; Caso and Smith 1966...
