Defiance and deference in Mexico's colonial north : Indians under Spanish rule in Nueva Vizcaya / Susan M. Deeds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deeds, Susan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--Missions--Mexico.

Jesuits.

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--History.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Durango (State)--History.

Indians of Mexico--Cultural assimilation--Mexico--Chihuahua (State).

Indians of Mexico--Cultural assimilation--Mexico--Durango (State).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico—the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras. Yet, when the colonial era ended two centuries later, only the Tepehuanes and Tarahumaras remained as distinct peoples, the other groups having disappeared or blended into the emerging mestizo culture of the northern frontier. Why were these two indigenous peoples able to maintain their group identity under conditions of conquest, while the others could not? In this book, Susan Deeds constructs authoritative ethnohistories of the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras to explain why only two of the five groups successfully resisted Spanish conquest and colonization. Drawing on extensive research in colonial-era archives, Deeds provides a multifaceted analysis of each group's past from the time the Spaniards first attempted to settle them in missions up to the middle of the eighteenth century, when secular pressures had wrought momentous changes. Her masterful explanations of how ethnic identities, subsistence patterns, cultural beliefs, and gender relations were forged and changed over time on Mexico's northern frontier offer important new ways of understanding the struggle between resistance and adaptation in which Mexico's indigenous peoples are still engaged, five centuries after the "Spanish Conquest."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Spanish Entradas and Indigenous Responses in Topia and Tepehuana, 1560–1620

2. Environment and Culture

3. A Counterfeit Peace, 1620–1690

4. Crises of the 1690s: Rebellion, Famine, and Disease

5. Defiance and Deference in Transitional Spaces, 1700–1730s

6. Jesuits Take Stock: Cosmic Intent and Local Coincidence

7. ‘‘Stuck Together with Pins’’: The Unraveling of the Mission Fabric

8. Rendering unto Caesar at the Crossroads of Ethnicity and Identity

Conclusions

Notes

Glossary

Archival Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79876-8

OCLC:

614978344