... University Press. Marriage Alliances among Colonial Mixtec Elites: The Villagómez Caciques of Acatlan-Petlalcingo John K. Chance, Arizona State University Abstract. Marriage alliances among governing families were an important instru- ment of political integration in Postclassic...

... why this is so. In this essay I attempt to answer this question for the Mixteca Baja region in south- ern Mexico in the late colonial period. I cite a number of cases, including the Villagómez cacicazgo of Suchitepec, to show that there was a shift in cacicazgo management away from direct...

..., not only through their sale, but also as they are divided into smaller and smaller pieces among increasing numbers of descendants in each generation. A good example is the Villagómez estate, centered in the Baja town of Suchitepec...

... common for individual members of the regular orders to take Native and mestizo students under their wing and teach them in ways like those in the schools of caciques and colegios mayores. 14 Amy Huras ( 2016 : 134) argues that leading extirpators such as the Lima Archbishop Pedro de Villagómez...