...Mark Goodale This article explores the intersection between documentary culture and social history through an analysis of legal archival theory and practice in rural Bolivia. The guiding theoretical premise is that legal archival research in rural Bolivia involves, to different degrees, both...

... is eventually produced. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-077 Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730– 1850. By Deborah E. Kanter. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. ii + 151 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) Leslie S...

... of the hacienda, which dominated the rural landscape from the late 1500s through 1940, with its demise through post-Revolution land reform. They seek to demystify the “legend” of the hacienda as a feudal socioeco- nomic form and argue that the Central Mexican versions were diverse in form, entrepreneurial...

... followed hunter-​ gatherers as they pursued their traditional lifeways, but this strategy was doomed to failure by the colonizers’ ultimate aim to create communities of settled agriculturalists. The other early model—“urban-rural”—was​ used where Spaniards had already congregated Indians...

...Michele M. Stephens Book Reviews 197 Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico. By Elizabeth Terese Newman. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. vii + 255 pp., introduction, illustrations, appendix, glossary...

..., and James Lockhart, eds. 1976 Provinces of Early Mexico: Variants of Spanish American Regional Evolution . UCLA Latin American Center Publications, vol. 36 . Los Angeles: University of California. Andrews, Anthony 1991 The Rural Chapels and Churches of Early Colonial Yucatán and Belize...

...: Doubleday. Carson, W. E. 1909 Mexico, the Wonderland of the South . New York: MacMillan. Charlton, Thomas H. 1972 Population Trends in the Teotihuacán Valley, ad. 1400-1969. World Archaeology 4 (1): 108 -23. 1986 Socioeconomic Dimensions of Urban-Rural Relations in the Colonial Period...

..., ed. 1998 The “Pax Colonial” and Native Resistance in New Spain . Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press. Schryer, Frans J. 1990 Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico . Princeton, nj: Princeton University Press. Shadle, Stanley F. 1994 Andrés Molina Enríquez: Mexican Land...

... Relations in Latin America. By Alison Brysk. (Stanford, Stanford Uni- versity Press, xxv + pp., glossary, introduction, tables, refer- ences, index. cloth, paper.) Peasants against Globalization: Rural Social Movements...

...Stacey Schwartzkopf Nonindigenous, non-Spanish castas were a significant presence in late colonial Central America, yet their lives have remained opaque to historians, particularly in heavily indigenous rural areas such as western Guatemala. Drawing on detailed census correspondence, this article...

... review cannot do justice to it. All specialists in the colonial period should read it. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-031 Book Reviews 755 The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By John...

... 1906 . Mexico City : Tipografía de la Oficina Impresora de Estampillas . Mintz Sidney W. 1974 . “ The Rural Proletariat and the Problem of Rural Proletarian Consciousness .” Journal of Peasant Studies 1 , no. 3 : 291 – 325 . Nahmad Molinari Daniel . 1998 . “ El Tajín: Una...

... mediated these transformations and was reshaped by them. Local gentry worked as cultural and political brokers, joining forces with state officials in remaking Yucatán as a “modern” and “civilized” state through infrastructural improvements and education aimed at transforming largely indigenous, rural...

...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...

... order, this article focuses on their transformations. It examines the connections between the cacicazgo and other key nineteenth-century rural institutions in the Mixteca, such as the corporate community and the hacienda. It also examines the continued deployment of the idea of cacicazgo in nineteenth...

...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...

... as haciendas in documentary sources, the estates demonstrate an architectural poverty that casts doubt on their ability to generate profits and their role in the transition to a market economy. This article proposes that architectural investment in rural areas may signal changes in entrepreneurial strategies...

... capitalized economic sectors), and typical topics (e.g.,party politics, elite factionalism) that have been the focus of Yucatec historiography. By directing attention to areas (communities in the milpa zone) and topics (the political and cultural forms of rural communities) that have been marginalized...

... the inability of both native and colonial rulers to handle mounting demographic pressures, the intense process of intraethnic strife contributed to the disruption of rural authority. Copyright 2008 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 The Politics of Intracommunity Land Conflict in the Late...

...Fernando Armstrong-Fumero This article focuses on two narratives that claim that a pre-Hispanic pyramid at Chichén Itzá is the biblical Tower of Babel. One “Mayan Babel” is represented in a series of stories told by rural Maya speakers in Yucatán, the other in an unpublished manuscript written...