Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the
Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was …

The political jurisdiction of the colonial cacique, or ethnic lord, is often understood to have
been truncated or undermined by Spanish political administration. But the role of the …

In recent years, archaeologists have productively exploited historical documents and
monuments as evidence for social memory and the selective writing, rewriting, and silencing …

Abstract Focusing on colonial Spanish America, we explore scorned subjects—indigenous
things that were identified as vital, sentient subjects by the people who made and used them …

This article examines a conflict over indigenous inheritance law in one small corner of the
16thcentury Spanish Empire–the northern Andes–in order to open a window onto legal …

The pages of the Mixtec screenfolds are painted with hundreds of place signs. Only a
handful have been linked to specific locations on the ground. In this essay, I propose …

This chapter illustrates an alternative, socially oriented, microarchaeological approach to
Aztec households that considers family genealogies and histories and reconstructs the …

The embedding of pre-Hispanic decorated carved stones into the facades of colonial
Mexican churches has long been a well-known phenomenon. 1 The practice bears a family …

The aim of this article is to analyse the artistic policies in regards to the relationships
between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing primarily on the fear of …

El volumen lxii: 1, número 245 de Historia Mexicana (jul.-sept. 2012) incluyó una reseña de
mi libro The In visible War (Stanford, 2011), escrita por Rosalba Piazza, de la Universidad …