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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458833303321

Autore

Ruiz Medrano Ethelia

Titolo

Mexico's indigenous communities [[electronic resource] ] : their lands and histories, 1500-2010 / / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano ; translated by Russ Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2010

ISBN

1-4571-0977-8

1-4571-1085-7

1-60732-017-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Mesoamerican worlds : from the Olmecs to the Danzantes

Disciplina

333.2

Soggetti

Indians of Mexico - Land tenure - History

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

Indians of Mexico - Claims

Indians of Mexico - Ethnic identity

Land tenure - Law and legislation - Mexico - History

Ethnohistory - Mexico

Electronic books.

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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