From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty : the Tarascan and Caxcan Territories in Transition.

"In this collective study, the settlement patterns of the last five centuries in Central Western Mexico, language distribution, ritual representation of territoriality, processes of collective identity, and/or the forms of participation and resistance during different phases of Mexican state fo...

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Main Author: Roth-Seneff, Andrew
Other Authors: Kemper, Robert V., Adkins, Julie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2015
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Native peoples of the Americas.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction; 1. Ethnic Landscapes: Territoriality, Time Immemorial, and the Twenty-First Century
  • Andrew Roth-Seneff; 2. Indigenous Population Transformations in West-Central Mexico
  • Robert V. Kemper and Julie Adkins; Part II. Constructing the Historical Horizon of "Contact"; 3. Territory and Resistance in West-Central Mexico, Part 1: Introduction and Archaeological Background
  • Phillip C. Weigand; 4. Territory and Resistance in West-Central Mexico, Part 2: The Rebelión de Nueva Galicia and Its Late Postclassic Prelude
  • Phillip C. Weigand.
  • 5. The Prehispanic Heritage of the Tarascans (Purépecha)
  • Helen Perlstein PollardPart III. Native Organization and Colonial State Formation; 6. Visions of the Past: The Tarascan Kingdom and the Late Colonial Primordial Titles from Michoacán
  • Hans Roskamp; 7. Identity and Ethnicity in Colonial Michoacán: Corporatism, Social Contract, and Individualism among the Tarascans
  • Felipe Castro Gutiérrez; 8. Indigenous Space and Frontier in Sixteenth-Century Nueva Galicia
  • José Francisco Román Gutiérrez; Part IV. The Past in the Present.
  • 9. The Historia of Islands: New Huichol Territorial Claims to Ancestral Places
  • Paul Liffman10. The Defense of Territory in the Costa-Sierra Nahua of Michoacán
  • John Gledhill; 11. Ritual and Public Spheres in an Ethnic Celebration of Communal Sovereignty: The Purépecha Transition
  • Andrew Roth-Seneff; References Cited; Editors and Contributors; Index.