96 Citations
The encomienda and the optimizing imperialist: an interpretation of Spanish imperialism in the Americas
- Political Science, History
- 2013
During the conquest and early administration of Spain’s American colonies the most controversial policy was the granting of temporary encomiendas, or temporary rights to collect tribute from Indians,…
A Judeo-Christian Tlaloc or a Nahua Yahweh? Domination, Hybridity and Continuity in the Nahua Evangelization Theater
- Political Science
- 2001
One of the most dramatic episodes in the Franciscan venture of spiritual colonization in the Mexican highlands was its evangelization theater. The great scholar and translator of this theater,…
Taking the Courts to the Fields: Law, Violence, and Agrarian Custom in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico
- History, LawLaw and History Review
- 2022
This article analyzes how Spanish law intersected with longue-durée Indigenous histories to produce performative judicial violence in disputes over boundary lands separating Indigenous communities.…
Economic Anthropology
- EconomicsEconomic Anthropology
- 2022
Looking back over the fifty years of fieldwork anthropology that began with Malinowski, one sees that the subject of economic anthropology today has three distinctive features. 1. It considers many…
New light on the road to Damascus? Some further thoughts on acculturation as seen in the auto La Conversión de San Pablo
- Linguistics
- 2018
Abstract:This article focuses on aspects of the early interaction between the Franciscan friars and the indigenous people of Mexico. The most appropriate name for the natives of the Valley of Mexico…
Improvisation and polyphony in colonial Mexico
- History
- 2016
When Spain colonized Mesoamerica, it imported a European musical tradition that grew rapidly in the New World. Previous scholarship has traced the dissemination of composed European polyphony in New…
Divinity and decay: the narrative of miraculous renovation and the repair of sacred images in colonial Mexico
- Art
- 2016
Miraculous images in the early modern period were continually restored and touched up to ensure their continued decency, relevancy, and efficacy as divine conduits. This article focuses on the…
A MULTISCALAR APPROACH TO MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE AT MIDDLE POSTCLASSIC XALTOCAN
- SociologyAncient Mesoamerica
- 2016
Abstract Ethnohistoric documents characterize the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in central Mexico as an era of endemic warfare and mass migration, processes that archaeologists have causally…
Churches, Chapels, and Maya Dwellings of Colonial Yucatán and Belize. A Postcolonial Approach
- Political Science
- 2016
The Aztec Economic World: Merchants and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica
- Economics, History
- 2016
This study explores the organization, scale, complexity, and integration of Aztec commerce across Mesoamerica at Spanish contact. The aims of the book are threefold. The first is to construct an…