... 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...

...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...

...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...

...-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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... of Chibcha-speaking cacicazgos prior to Spanish arrival. Tunja was built atop the settlement of Hunza, from which the Hoa —likely Bogotá’s most powerful competitor—had reigned. Many of the dozens of pre-Hispanic cacicazgos were subject to one of these two usaques (“ caciques mayores ”), although still...

... 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...

... to understand, rather, the multidirectional processes of identity formation—Spanish, indigenous, mestizo—in Mexico. In the author’s words, the book “is not a story of one-way memory transmission, but rather of resonance, dialogues, intersections and parallels. The cacique agenda of self-fashioning developed...

... 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...

...) political frameworks. He pays particular attention to the practice known as biohote by the Muisca and translated to borrachera by the Spanish. These practices represented a moral economy that molded the cacique’ s authority and legitimacy. The ambivalence of the Spanish imperial system as it sought...

... of the caciques of Tequisistlan, 13 December 1537, AGI Justicia 128, N.1, fols. 85v–86r. 71 Testimonies on behalf of don Pedro of Tetzcoco, 10–23 May 1537, AGI Justicia 128, N. 1, fols. 43r–72r. 72 Testimony of Tacatecle, 10 May 1537, AGI Justicia 128, N.1, fols. 44v–46r. 73 The first ruling...

... 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...

... peninsular or American-born criollo [creole]), indio cacique, indio ladino, and indio. Calidad, usually expressed in socioracial terms, was an “inclusive impression reflecting one’s reputation as a whole” that overlapped with clase or “occupational standing” (McCaa 1984 : 477–78). 3 Among...