Mexico's Indigenous communities : their lands and histories, 1500-2010 / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano ; translated by Russ Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruiz Medrano, Ethelia.

Series:

Mesoamerican worlds.

Mesoamerican worlds : from the Olmecs to the Danzantes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Land tenure--History.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Legal status, laws, etc--History.

Indians of Mexico--Claims.

Indians of Mexico--Ethnic identity.

Land tenure--Law and legislation--Mexico--History.

Land tenure.

Ethnohistory--Mexico.

Ethnohistory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past. Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories, recovering and rewriting versions of their past in light of their lived present. Ethelia Ruiz Medrano focuses on a series of individual cases, falling within successive historical epochs, that illust

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Historical Background: Indian Access to Colonial Justice in the Sixteenth Century; Justice in Ancient Mesoamerica; Justice for the Indian Population: From Conquest to the Beginning of the Viceroyalty; Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Indian Justice; Viceroy Luis de Velasco and Indian Justice; Augustín Pinto: A Sixteenth- Century Procurador; The Indian Justice System at the End of the Sixteenth Century; Notes

2. Indigenous Negotiation to Preserve Land, History, Titles, and Maps: Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesHistorical Setting; The Policy of Congregación; The Policy of Composición; Recounting History as a Means of Defending Land; Retelling the Past among Indian Pueblos; Recalling the Past and Local Indigenous Power; Traditional Indigenous Titles and Maps in the Context of the Sacred; Notes; 3. Indigenous Negotiation to Preserve Land, History, Titles, and Maps: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Indian Pueblos and Independence: General Considerations

Indian Pueblos during the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyIndian Pueblos, Land, and Titles from the Reform Laws Onward; Land, Indians, and Titles after the Revolution; Notes; 4. Defending Land: Indian Pueblos' Contemporary Quest for the Origins of Local Community History; Pueblos That Hold Primordial Titles: Present-Day Cases; A Nahua Pueblo and Its Titles; Santa María Cuquila, Oaxaca: Politics and Local History in a Mixtec Community; A Snapshot of Local History; Land and Primordial Titles; The Past in the Present in Santa María Cuquila; Notes; Conclusion; Maps

List of Libraries and Archives ConsultedList of Significant Towns Mentioned in the Book; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781457109775

1457109778

9781457110856

1457110857

9781607320173

1607320177

OCLC:

775301701