Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State Among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500-1750This book is a historical and archeological examination of the Isthmus Zapotec state, which was established at Tehuantepec in late prehispanic times through a campaign of conquest and colonization, and the responses that its descendant populations made to the complex political, economic, and cultural changes introduced by Spanish colonialism. Although the modern-day Isthmus Zapotecs are renowned in Mexico and among Latin Americanists for their vibrant cultural traditions and their legacy of political resistance, only isolated elements of the complex historical processes by which these patterns emerged have been studied previously. Using complementary archival and archeological sources, the book details the transformation of Isthmus Zapotec society under colonialism and the enduring structures through which its members redefined their political autonomy. |
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King and Community in Prehispanic Tehuantepec | 39 |
Political and Religious Change | 89 |
Tehuantepec accompanying their 1553 criminal complaint | 103 |
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