...R. Alan Covey; Christina M. Elson Yucay was a royal estate in the Inca heartland built by provincial laborers for Huayna Capac, the penultimate ruler. Permanent retainers staffed the estate, maintaining a palace and leisure facilities for the emperor and providing material support for his family...

...John Monaghan; Arthur Joyce; Ronald Spores Many estates in the Mixteca region of southern Mexico were controlled by the descendants of the Mixtec nobility well into the second half of the nineteenth century. Rather than view these estates, or cacicazgos , as the last gasp of the waning colonial...

...Rani T. Alexander During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Yaxcabá, Yucatán, Mexico, the expansion of Spanish-American-owned cattle estates occurred in response to indigenous population growth and the implementation of the Bourbon political reforms. Although clearly described...

...Susan Smith-Peter This article argues that the creation of a creole estate in early nineteenth-century Russian America was motivated by cultural rather than racial concerns. Creoles were the offspring of Russian or indigenous men and native women. An analysis of the earliest known list of creoles...

...Christopher M. Nichols This article examines incipient capitalism in a frontier town in Yucatán during the years preceding and following independence. It investigates one example in which a rural town is intimately connected to estate development. The town of Tekax, located on the southern...

...John K. Chance Traditional views of rural central Mexico during the colonial period commonly overlook the role of the small, subsistence-oriented Spanish ranchos,which in the vicinity of Santiago Tecali, Puebla, far outnumbered the larger hacienda estates. In Tecali, dealings of the local Nahua...

... 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...

... enormous difficulties in supplying the urban market of Chilapa with basic resources,especially maize. The hostilities of the 1840s grew out of the efforts of elites to resolve these problems by establishing, among other things,commercial agricultural estates. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003...

...Douglas V. Armstrong; Kenneth G. Kelly Archaeological and historical research at Seville Plantation, Jamaica, are used to explain changes in settlement patterns within the estate's African Jamaican community between 1670 and the late nineteenth century. Sugar plantations, such as Seville...

...John K. Chance In her survey of the indigenous cacicazgo (lordly estate) in New Spain, Margarita Menegus Bornemann (2005) asks why previous studies of this hybrid Indian/Spanish institution have emphasized property and neglected the owners' seigniorial relations with their subject commoner...

...Andrew Laird Abstract In the 1500s, don Pedro de Montezuma, son of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (Montezuma II), petitioned for the return of land and estates in Tula, fifty miles away from Mexico City. A report that was compiled in Latin in 1541, now generally known as “Verba sociorum domini Petri...

...Gordon L. Pullar A Creole social group or estate, primarily the offspring of Russian men and Native women, was established in Alaska by the 1821 Russian-American Company charter. The Creoles enjoyed special rights and privileges in Russian America until the United States took over the jurisdiction...

... research at colonial Jesuit wine haciendas in Nasca’s Ingenio Valley has revealed narratives that link historical memory on the former estates to fantastical imagery of ghosts, treasure, and mysterious tunnels, which simultaneously reference multiple attitudes related to a difficult past. This article...

... dealing with social, political, and economic continuity and change in the colonial and national periods of Mexico and Central America. Haciendas are ‘‘agricultural estates, operated by a dominant land-owner and a depen- dent labor...

..., sailors, navigators, managers of small trading posts, and so forth. A unique attribute of the Alaska “mixed-bloods”­ was a special estate to which they were eventually assigned by the RAC in its first charter adopted in 1821. As is well known, the biggest problem faced by this company...

... settlements, Dolores/the Cramer Estates and Crique Sarco, and the reasons each village in the study was founded are coded and summarized. When a “parent village” exhibits char- acteristics such as soil depletion or land conflicts, the “daughter village” is coded as being founded because of the approach...

... Tahoe is indicative of this silencing. The media emphasized the secrecy of the real estate deal, the luxury of the two estates, and Zuckerberg’s economic power. One report, published on the Active Norcal blog on 14 May 2019, 1 even asked if Zuckerberg was the “New King of Tahoe.” The Wall Street...

... not corporate descent groups. To be clear, here I assume that not all unilineal descent groups are also corporate. I follow Morton Fried’s conception, which is ultimately derived from Maine’s ( 1861 ) Ancient Law : “a group is corporate if it maintains continuity of possession to an estate which consists...

... through elite practices and spaces. Stella Nair uses the case study of Chinchero—a royal estate built by the emperor (Sapa Inka) Topa Inka—to explore how the site relates to cultural ideas (and ideals) of landscape, vision, power, and religion, while also framing the site as the specific expression...

.... Leiden: Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos. 2005a Mixtec Codices and the Transition from Noble Estates to Corporate Communities in the Nineteenth Century. In Painted Books and Indigenous Knowledge in Mesoamerica: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Mary Elizabeth Smith . Elizabeth...