... the significance of these trends for the changing status of cacique in the eighteenth century. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Acuña, René, ed. 1984 Relaciones geográficas del siglo XVI: Antequera . Vol. 1 . Mexico City: UNAM. Chance, John K. 1994 Indian Elites in Late Colonial...

...John K. Chance Marriage alliances among governing families were an important instrument of political integration in Postclassic Mesoamerica, especially in Mixteca. Alliances among Mixtec nobles persisted during the colonial period, although after the sixteenth century, the caciques lost much...

...Rajeshwari Dutt In this article I delve into the life story of one particular cacique (indigenous leader), Angelino Uicab of the town of Teya, during a particularly significant period in the history of Yucatán: the Caste War. Focusing on the 1840s and 1850s I use the Uicab case to show how...

...-century struggles over land tenure, jurisdictional boundaries, issues of sovereignty, and group definitions—even when the cacique was no longer present and the cacique's estate was no longer extant. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Alvarado, Francisco de 1962 [1593] Vocabulario en lengua...

... represented himself as an authority on the Maya and as a model outcome of indigenista assimilation. Part revolutionary cacique (or boss), part ethnic broker, he used his mastery of Yucatec Maya and populist style to parry demands from below and to accommodate the new political and old economic elites. Still...

... in the valley remained the cacique of Teotihuacán. While much extant literature contrasts the hacienda as a type with the estates of the native aristocracy, we suggest a functional similarity based on comparability of market articulation (including commodities produced and the land itself as commodity...

... intervention in the psyche of the Native children of the Andean kurakas. Indoctrinators used the schools of caciques and other missional spaces to direct these young students’ mental and bodily dispositions toward cultural comportment changes. Colonizing Andeans’ innermost realms, the king and the Jesuits...

...Erin W. Stone Abstract This article delves into the conquest and early years of colonization of Española from the perspective of the “structure of the conjuncture.” By doing so it prioritizes the Indigenous perspective of conquest, particularly that of the cacique Guacanagarí, who formed the first...

...Jesse Zarley Abstract This article examines the actions of Francisco Mariluán and Venancio Coñuepan, two rival caciques of the Mapuche indigenous people, during Chile’s independence wars to understand how indigenous leaders defended their sovereignty and shaped the transition from colony to nation...

...Erin Woodruff Stone On Christmas Day 1521, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, the first recorded slave revolt in the Americas occurred. A group of African, likely Wolof, slaves came together with native Indians led by the Taíno cacique Enriquillo to assert their independence. Beyond being...

..., Caciques e indios, 74, 732v. 74 AGI, Escribanía 824B, 253v: testimony given by an indio ladino after Torres had been accused of rebellion . Corroborating testimony is in AGI, Escribanía 824A, 564r. 75 AGI, Escribania 824A, 480r–481r. 76 Ibid., 487r–488r. 77 Ibid., 70r–v...

... Mesoamerica.In Caciques and Their People: A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores . Joyce Marcus and Judith Francis Zeitlin, eds. Pp. 45 -65. Anthropological Papers, No. 89. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology. 1996a The Barrios of Colonial Tecali: Patronage,Kinship, and Territorial...

...Martin Nesvig The book has a compelling organization that facilitates its reading. Each chapter takes up a thematic and chronological question. Chapter 2 examines the ways that indigenous caciques who asserted titles and rights placed themselves within the Spanish regalist system as legitimate...

... for Ethnohistory 120 Sergio Serulnikov land assigned to the households on a long-term basis. As regards the latter, the caciques periodically redistributed plots according to a combination of criteria: demographic (size of the families), social (sponsorship...

... leaders ( caciques ), the encomenderos who were granted access to tribute in the valley, and the colonial church and state. To achieve this, he focuses upon the colonial reorganization of geographic spaces and landscapes, the evolution of a colonial economy in the valley and its eventual integration...

... bringing the chaotic colony into the king’s peace. In practice, this meant checking the worst excesses of the encomenderos while pragmatically balancing the economic and political interests of the king, the clergy, and, to a degree, the Nahua hereditary nobility, whom they called caciques and “natural...

... of that time. Strong colonial cacicazgos were Santiago Quiotepec, San Juan Bautista Cuicatlán, and San Francisco Tutepetongo— all situated on the slopes overlooking the Cañada of Cuicatlan. The posses- sion of large extensions of land on the valley floor and on the slopes formed the basis for the cacique’s...

... uniforms, staffs, and firearms (Prado [1795] 1839 : 40–41). 1 During the 1791 negotiations, the caciques first used their captives as ambassadors and interpreters, and once conversations progressed, volunteered to convince more local groups or camps ( tolderías ) (Serra [1803] 1845 : 207). 2...

... in 12 return for the cessation of the attacks against the Spanish. A group of Tule caciques responded favorably to Martínez’s offer of amnesty in the fall of 1738, the result, the presidente triumphantly opined...

... of the sixteen names of those who were identified as calpolli leaders are completely legible, 5 only five of the nine are Nahuatl, and none of the five are Chimalhua. Nor was a Chimalhua one of its four caciques, señores (lords), or principales (nobles), on behalf of whom, in 1535, the Crown awarded...