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

• Autore: Ruiz Medrano Ethelia
• Pubblicazione: Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.2
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Mexico's indigenous communities
• ISBN: 1-4571-0977-8; 1-4571-1085-7; 1-60732-017-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458833303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mesoamerican worlds.