History of Colonial Mexico

Creando sujetos reales a través de las reformas Borbónicas: la corona, el cabildo y la manipulación de la ceremonia en la “segunda ciudad” del reino

by Frances L. Ramos

La conquista de México en Pedro Mártir de Anglería y Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

by Jorge Diaz Ceballos

Profit From the Wastelands: Social Change and the Formation of Haciendas In the Valley of Puebla, 1570-1640

by Rik Hoekstra

A Colonial Cacicazgo: the Mendozas of Seventeenth-Century Tepexí de la Seda

by Rik Hoekstra

The cacicazgo, or indigenous lordship, was a pivotal institution in colonial Mexican Indian pueblos. Caciques, or... more The cacicazgo, or indigenous lordship, was a pivotal institution in colonial Mexican Indian pueblos. Caciques, or Indian nobles, played a role, both in the largely indigenous world of the pueblo and in the regional economy that was dominated by Spaniards. This subject of this essay is the analysis of the evolution and daily operation and of a cacicazgo from the Indian settlement of Tepexí de la Seda near the city of Puebla de los Ángeles and the life of its caciques in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.In the sixteenth century the cacicazgo was in upheaval because of discord between the cacicazgos and their dependent Indians. A number of long-running accounts from the 1620s record in detail the daily operations of the cacicazgo of Doña Ana de Santa Bárbara of the Mendoza family, thus illustrating how caciques negotiated their positions and coped with their lives and the changes in it.

Arte efímero, espectáculo, y la reafirmación de la autoridad real en Puebla durante el siglo XVIII: La celebración en honor del Hércules borbónico

by Frances L. Ramos

Кодекс Мендоса (Códice Mendoza)

by Alejandro Skromnitsky

Co-authored with V. Talakh,  published in 'Blok.NOT', 2011

Кодекс Мендоса или Кодекс Мендосиано (исп. Códice Mendoza), созданный анонимным автором приблизительно в 1547 году в... more Кодекс Мендоса или Кодекс Мендосиано (исп. Códice Mendoza), созданный анонимным автором приблизительно в 1547 году в Мехико, один из лучших по сохранности среди ацтекских рукописных кодексов. Это второй ацтекский кодекс, переведённый на русский язык специалистами по доколумбовым цивилизациям В. Талахом и А. Скромницким.

Книга рассчитана на студентов, аспирантов и преподавателей исторических факультетов, а также всех тех, кто интересуется историей доколумбовых цивилизаций, и в частности ацтеками.

Navarrete, La sociedad indígena en la obra de Sahagún

by Federico Navarrete Linares

Navarrete Linares, Federico, “La sociedad indígena en la obra de Sahagún”, en Bernardino de Sahagún. Quinientos años de presencia, Miguel León-Portilla, ed., México, UNAM-Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2002, pp. 95-116.

The Politics of a Colonial Folksong: Male Bonding, Pardos'“Chuchumbé” and the Inquisitorial Body

by elena deanda

Carta de don Cristóbal Millán de Poblete a Juan Díez de la Calle, con una relación de los ministros de la catedral de México (20 de mayo de 1647)

by Guillaume Gaudin

Relaciones. Estudios de Historia y Sociedad, 126, Primavera 2011, vol.XXXII, p. 121-136

Reflexiones sobre los "Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez"

by Julián González-Barrera

en "En la region del aire. Obras de ficción en la prosa novohispana", coord. Trinidad Barrera, Sevilla, Renacimiento, 2011, pp. 132-160. ISBN: 978-84-8472-661-6.

The Mexican Kitchen's Islamic Connection

by Rachel Laudan

When Mexico’s leading writer, Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz, arrived in New Delhi in 1962 to take up his post as... more When Mexico’s leading writer, Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz, arrived in New Delhi in 1962 to take up his post as ambassador to India, he quickly ran across a culinary puzzle. Although Mexico and India were on opposite sides of the globe, the brown, spicy, aromatic curries that he was offered in India sparked memories of Mexico’s national dish, mole (pronounced MO-lay). Is mole, he wondered, “an ingenious Mexican version of curry, or is curry a Hindu adaptation of a Mexican sauce?” How could this seeming coincidence of “gastronomic geography” be explained?

Chiles, Chocolate and Race

by Rachel Laudan

What was going on in colonial Mexican food? Chiles, Chocolate and Race, an article I wrote with Jeffrey Pilcher. What was going on in colonial Mexican food? Chiles, Chocolate and Race, an article I wrote with Jeffrey Pilcher.

CHARLTON, Thomas H. and Patricia Fournier. “Pots and Plots: The Multiple Roles of Early Colonial Red Wares in the Basin of Mexico”. In Enduring Conquests. Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas, edited by Matthew Liebmann and Melissa S. Murphy, pp. 127-148. School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2010 (BLUE PRINTS)

by PATRICIA FOURNIER G.

Early African diaspora in colonial Campeche, Mexico: Strontium isotopic evidence

by James Burton

“Arte efímero, espectáculo, y la reafirmación de la autoridad real en Puebla durante el siglo XVIII: La celebración en honor del Hércules Borbónico.” Relaciones 97 (Winter 2004), pp. 179-218.

by Frances L. Ramos

"Succession and Death: Royal Ceremonies in Colonial Puebla." The Americas 60:2 (October 2003), pp. 185-215.

by Frances L. Ramos

Submerged and Emerging: Water, Rain, and Transformation in the Mixtec Codices of Pre-Columbian Mexico (Thesis, MA, 2003, Art History. The Univeristy of Texas at Austin.

by Rina Faletti

Кодекс Мальябекки (Мексика, XVI век) / Códice Magliabecchiano

by Alejandro Skromnitsky

Кодекс Мальябекки. / под ред. В. Талаха и А. Скромницкого. — К.: Blok.NOT, 2011. — 202 с.

Читателю предлагается впервые переведенный на русский язык интересный памятник XVI века – "Кодекс... more Читателю предлагается впервые переведенный на русский язык интересный памятник XVI века – "Кодекс Мальябекки", представляющий собой прокомментированные испанским автором индейские рисунки, восходящие, по крайней мере частично, к доиспанским пиктографическим текстам. Кодекс содержит ценные сведения по религии и этнографии индейцев Центральной Мексики накануне испансого завоевания.
Книга рассчитана на студентов, аспирантов и преподавателей исторических факультетов, а также всех тех, кто интересуется доколумбовыми цивилизациями, в частности ацтеками.

La Idolatría Letrada: Un Análisis Comparativo De Textos Clandestinos Rituales Y Devocionales En Comunidades Nahuas Y Zapotecas, 1613-1654

by David Tavárez

Fundación y colapso. El altépetl de Ixmiquilpan entre los siglos X y XVIII

by Fernando López Aguilar

Publicado en
García Targa, Juan y P. Fournier (coords,) Arqueología Colonial Latinoamericana. Modelos de Estudio. BAR International Series. 2009

El altepetl de Ixmiquilpan posiblemente fue fundado en el periodo Epiclásico (750-900 DNE). La cabecera fue desplazada... more El altepetl de Ixmiquilpan posiblemente fue fundado en el periodo Epiclásico (750-900 DNE). La cabecera fue desplazada y reinstaurada varias veces hasta quedar ubicada en su lugar final, con características particulares: ser un sistema dual, con un gobernante otomí y otro nahoa, cada uno de ellos controlaba sus propios sujetos dentro de un fenómeno de continuidad territorial. Entre los siglos XVI y XVIII, en un proceso que muestra resonancias de la organización social prehispánica, algunos sujetos se independizaron del gobierno indígena, elevando su rango y jerarquía. El proceso histórico del altepetl colonial puede iluminar la forma en que se construyó el territorio en la época prehispánica y la forma en que pudieron generarse los procesos de segregación y colapso de las grandes confederaciones del Altiplano Central Mexicano.

The altepetl of Ixmiquilpan was possibly founded in the Epiclassic period (750-900AD). The center of government was moved and reestablished several times before being located in its final place, with particular characteristics. While it was a dual system, with an Otomi and a Nahoa leader, each of them controlled their own subjects within the phenomenon of a single territory. Between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, during a process that shows echoes of pre-Hispanic social organization, some subjects declared their independence from the native government, raising their rank and hierarchy. The historical process of the colonial altepetl could illuminate the way the territory was built during the pre-Columbian period and how the process of segregation and collapse of the great
confederations of the central Mexican highlands took place.