Negotiation within domination [[electronic resource] ] : New Spain's Indian pueblos confront the Spanish state / / edited by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano and Susan Kellogg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458565403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2010
• ISBN: 1-4571-1086-5; 1-60732-033-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Collana: Mesoamerican worlds : from the Olmecs to the Danzantes
• Altri autori (Persone): Ruiz MedranoEthelia; KelloggSusan
• Disciplina: 972/.02
• Soggetti: Indians of Mexico - Government relations - History; Indians, Treatment of - Mexico - History; Government, Resistance to - Mexico; Electronic books.; Mexico Ethnic relations; Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810; Spain Colonies America Administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: back to the future : law, politics, and culture in colonial Mexican ethnohistorical studies / Susan Kellogg -- Empire, Indians, and the negotiation for the status of city in Tlaxcala, 1521-1550 / R. Jovita Baber -- Fighting destiny : Nahua nobles and friars in the sixteenth-century revolt of the encomenderos against the king / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano -- Indigenous centurions and triumphal arches : negotiation in eighteenth-century Mexico City / Edward W. Osowski -- The power of the law : the construction of colonial power in an indigenous region / María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi -- Costumbre : a language of negotiation in eighteenth-century Oaxaca / Yanna P. Yannakakis -- Peace agreements and war signals : negotiations with the Apaches and Comanches in the interior provinces of New Spain, 1784-1788 / Cuauhtemoc Velasco Ávila -- Waterways, legal ways, and ethnic interactions : the Ríos District of Tabasco during the seventeenth ; and eighteenth centuries / Jose Manuel A. Chávez-Gómez -- Afterword: the consequences of negotiation / Susan Kellogg.
• Sommario/riassunto: Negotiation within Domination examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous peoples and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity of native negotiation and mediation with colonial rule across time, culture, and place and how it shaped colonial political and legal structures from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although indigenous communities reacted to Spanish presence with significant acts of resistance and rebellion, they also turned to negotiation to deal with conflicts and ameliorate the cons