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... studies of the Mixtee. Of the 13 subsequent chapters, this reviewer concentrated on those dealing with chiefdoms or cacicazgos, as the book’s title suggests. John K. Chance presents a stimulating comparative analysis of the Indian elites during the late colonial period (chapter 2). He compares...

... of the reconstitution of Indian identity. It is hard to see just what was reconstituted, since the parameters of local identity before the seventeenth century are not spelled out, and his discussion of the processes of the reconstitution sometimes border on the speculative. For example, he suggests that Mixtees...

... University Press 1984 Insights into the Creative Genius of Robert Hayward Barlow, H. Leon Abrams, Jr.; The View from the Coast: Relationships between the Coast and Valley of Oaxaca, Donald L. Brockington; A Grain of Sand, a Drop of Water: Migration and Mutual Aid in a Mixtee Community, Douglas...

... dominant for a long period. Mixtees and Zapotees came more slowly. Ultimately all became hispanized. In Antequera, legal imposition of a system of castas worked for the primary racial groups but quickly developed nuances and flexibility with the increase of mixed bloods. Mestizos entered the Spanish...

... Marcus’ Mesoamerican Writing Systems (1992). The descriptive contributions—especially Tom Cummins on Andean modes of information transmission, John Pohl comparing Mixtee and Aztec codexes, and Dana Leibsohn on maps—are of broad interest and should reach a multidisciplinary readership. The editors...

... volume contains 28 other articles. “The Gonjugation System of Maya Languages ” is a tour de force applying the methodology of German comparative linguistics to eleven members of the Mayan family, and in this volume Seler deals with Nahuatl, Zapotee, and Mixtee as well. Today Mayanists will read Seler’s...

... City, 1986); and Ronald Spores, The Mixtees in Ancient and Colonial Times (Norman, 1984). 3 Mexico’s Archivo General de la Nación (hereafter AGN) was the major source for documents used in this study. The ramo Hospital de Jesús (hereafter HJ), partly in bound volumes and partly in unbound...

... village politics. The documents are written in Spanish, a language that was probably intelligible only to wealthier and more traveled peasants. Most villages in the Chilapa district spoke Nahuatl, but in next-door Tlapa speakers of Mixtee, Tlapanec, or Amuzgo dominated many villages. Often the spelling...