This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation
and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project …

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 …

10. Matthew,“Facing East”; Mira Caballos, Indios y mestizos; Reséndez, The Other Slavery;
Van Deusen,“Coming to Castile.” 11. Don Baltasar Zaman prided himself on having …

After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs
among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible …

On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan's indigenous cabildo, or city council,
petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any …

To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of
Òmodern self, Ó demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early …

In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important
export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns …

Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquisitors, closely
examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth-and seventeenth-century inquisitors …

Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María Magdalena, an indigenous noblewoman living in one of
only three convents in New Spain that allowed Indians to profess as nuns, sent a letter to …

This wide-ranging introduction to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean
offers broad coverage of culture and society in the region, taking into account historical …