... and critically, offering a tour through the history of a complex rural society (including peasants, Indians, and rancheros) in a region of south-central Mexico (the Mixteca Baja) that spans two centuries (1750–1962). He reminds us that the area's inhabitants rejected the land reform that the Zapatistas tried...

...Jennifer Saracino The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec: A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca . Edited by Arni Brownstone . With contributions by Nicholas Johnson and Bas van Doesburg . Foreword by Elizabeth Hill Boone . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015...

... a discussion of the reliability of tithe records for Indian production nor a word on the colonial measures cited in the book. Many graphs lack scale and source; age pyramids are not drawn to scale (e.g., p. 570). There is no map of Mixteca nor a description of what that region encompassed physically...

... Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 La mixteca. Su cultura e historia prehispánicas . By Jordan Barbro Dahlgren de . Mexico City , 1954 . Imprenta Universitaria . Charts. Illustrations. Maps. Pp. 399 . ...

...-century materials, it seems most unlikely that anything in this study will resolve the controversies. The authors’ position for the Mixteca Alta in the sixteenth century fits, matches, and re-expresses the position already taken for central Mexico as a whole. A short review is not the appropriate place...

...Alex Hidalgo Building Yanhuitlan: Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500 . By Alessia Frassani . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2017 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xxiii...

...Howard Cline Fragmentos desconocidos del Códice de Yanhuitlan y otras investigaciones mixtecas . By Berlin Heinrich . ( Mexico, D. F. : Imprentas L. D., S. A. , 1947 . Pp. 87 . Illustrations. Paper.) [ Distributed by Antigua Librería Robredo de José Porrúa e Hijos .] Copyright...

..., and examines some aspects of their reorganization and transformation during the colonial period. 4 In particular, I focus on two components of the colonial community in the light of a recent ethnography from the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca. Mixtec-language writings reveal how individuals referred...

... subdelegations, is peremptory. In addition, no intimation at all is given as to how the Mixteca population might have behaved during the wars of independence, when Morelos’s forces arrived in the area. Historians concerned with how the social organization of Mexico altered from the pre-Columbian...

... subregion, the mountainous Mixteca Alta, with its most populous and best-documented kingdom—the cacicazgo of Yanhuitlán. A major concern was the search for evidence of cultural continuity and change. Native traditions broke down gradually during the sixteenth century, and even in our own days, the Mixtecs...

... of the largely Zapotec Valley of Oaxaca and the Mixteca in the scholarly literature that does exist. While she does not always surmount these challenges, the volume is to be commended for its comprehensive inclusion of the state’s other ethnolinguistic groups. Like other volumes in this series, this book aims...

... of treatment, and medical institutions in California and Mexico. A Guggenheim fellowship and sabbatical leave, spent in Mexico in 1939, led to a lifelong friendship with Robert Weitlaner and explorations in the Mixteca Alta and the Valley of El Mezquital. In 1940 the first essay in historical demography...

... This book is a second-edition reprint of the 1971 classic ethnography of the Triqui people, an indigenous peasant population of some 25,000 who inhabit the Mixteca region in the northwestern part of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The new edition, featuring the addition of a short biography of García...

..., Veracruz, all along the railroad lines. On the way out of Mexico at the end of the fourteen months, I did the same along the West Coast route. Apparently getting into regional archives was something of a new idea. In Oaxaca I went into the Mixteca Alta to see if I could find town records and parish...

... . 17. According to the expression coined by the anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán: Aguirre Beltrán, Regiones de refugio . 18. The CCIs were the local branches of the INI, located in Mexico City. The decree creating the Mixtecas' CCI referred to the region's “physiognomy,” the “principally...

... originated in the Mixteca Alta rests on one jade axe and one stone monument with a trapezoidal mouth, neither one scientifically excavated. Olmec studies are advancing rapidly and a mass of field work still awaits a more general treatment. Wicke seems to have the tools for that work, but is here treating...

.... As with the languages there are common qualities that extend over large areas and local idiosyncrasies peculiar to small areas. Among the former, in central Mexico, are the “Mixteca Puebla” traits originally proposed by Vaillant, including a four-part cosmology, as in the city plan of Tenochtitlán, and a two-part...

..., represented by Codex Borgia; Mixteca, represented by Codex Vindobonensis; and an unknown area, represented by Codex Fejervary-Mayer and Codex Laud. There follows a series of sixty-seven plates reproduced from these and other codices, together with descriptive and analytic commentary for each and clearly...

.... Two articles on New Spain stress the active role of Indians even under the mature colonial state. The excerpt from William Taylor’s fine social history of late colonial peasant revolts describes how Indian communities’ collective action circumscribed Spanish rule. Meanwhile, in Ronald Spores’s Mixteca...

... interest are the contributions of Rudolf Van Zantwijk on the Aztec royal family (chapter 9), Bruce Byland and John Pohl on the Mixteca Alta (chapter 11), and Mary Pohl and John Pohl on the Maya (chapter 13). The book ends with two chapters in a section misleadingly titled Discussion. One...