Crime and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Case of the Mixtec Murder Note

Terraciano, Kevin

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“…While Spanish courts also held the act in disdain, they seldom even gave divorces for infidelity and as previously viewed by the woman's histories, the accuser and the accused suffered mainly de facto punishments of shame. [13] Terracciano suggests that perhaps by the fact that on no grounds did the community acquit the murder that Spanish ideas of patriarchy had already influenced the natives. Spanish viewed that women should not be subjected to violent physical punishments to some degree, at least in the de jure sphere.…”

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Contreras

2018

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“…In Oaxaca, cotton was used to build and reinforce alliances between Mixtec elite during the Late Postclassic and early Colonial periods (Hamann 1997). Cotton mantas and other cloth products were important commodities in Oaxaca during the early Colonial period and could be given in place of other tribute requirements (Rodríguez Canto et al 1989; Terraciano 1998:239). The military armor worn by soldiers in coastal Tututepec was stuffed with cotton (Paso y Troncoso 1905:79, 235), as it was in other parts of Oaxaca and Mesoamerica (Anawalt 1981; Hicks 1994).…”

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“…Highland Mixtec weavers were well known for producing high quality cloth in the early Colonial period (Terraciano 1998:238), and some sources suggest that highland residents purchased the cotton in raw form. In the Relación Geográfica of Huitzo, written in 1579–1581, cotton was acquired from the “costa de Tututepec” (the lower Río Verde valley) and spun and woven in the highlands by Huitzo residents (Paso y Troncoso 1905:204).…”

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Thread Production in Early Postclassic Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico: Technology, Intensity, and Gender

King

2011

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Excavations at the site of Río Viejo in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico, yielded evidence of intensive cotton thread production during the Early Postclassic (a.d.975–1220). Spindle whorls were recovered in relatively large quantities in and around houses at Río Viejo, indicating that thread production was interspersed with other household activities and residents likely produced enough thread for local use and for export. Measurements of coastal spindle whorls show that the Río Viejo thread was unique compared to other coastal and highland sites in Oaxaca and Mesoamerica beyond. I argue that this uniqueness may in part stem from the particular variety of cotton that they were spinning, but also might reflect an interregional demand for their thread. The whorl data are presented in multiple ways to compare to other sites where intensive thread production has been proposed. Here, I discuss the problems inherent in whorl calculations and make a call for more standardized recording, ideally with volumetric density measures. In the final section of the paper, I use mortuary data and other lines of evidence to re-evaluate the ethnohistorically-documented relationship between women and textile production. In coastal Oaxaca, the evidence suggests that thread production was not linked to specific gender identities in a way that is marked archaeologically. Instead, adult members of households in coastal Oaxaca materially emphasized a shared group identity over any specific gender-based identities. The production of thread was a broadly shared household-level practice that involved multiple producers, which both created and reinforced social bonds between residents and provided Early Postclassic residents with secure and comfortable access to highland goods, paving the way for the more developed thread production industry in the Late Postclassic period.

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Ignored Racism

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Peterson²

2020

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This book is about how White Americans uniquely express racial-ethnic animus toward Latinos and how this often-ignored form of racial-ethnic hostility shapes their support for policies that adversely impact Latino communities. Its key argument is that the racialization of Latinos has created a belief system among some Whites that mixes attributes of race-ethnicity with race-neutral behaviors. This allows Whites to express animus toward Latinos in a race-neutral manner by blurring the lines between dislike toward the group and dislike toward certain behaviors. This form of racial animus directed at Latinos has been reiterated across time so frequently that these expressions have become a normal and accepted part of American political discourse. This book connects this too-frequently ignored form of animus toward Latinos with a range of political preferences of importance in contemporary politics. There is little doubt that life for Latino Americans, and people of Latino descent living within the United States, has been replete with difficulty and discrimination. Latinos have been subjected to many of the same forms of social marginalization, segregation, violence, property loss, and violations of civil rights and liberties that other racial and ethnic groups have experienced. These forms of discrimination can be rooted in the same set of ideologies and group dominance orientations regularly used to justify discriminatory behavior (e.g., racism à la ingroup favoritism and out-group hostility). But racism toward Latinos takes on an additional unique and more common form exhibited in debates over linguistic preferences, country of origin, American national identity, and immigration. Because it mixes conceptions of race with hostility toward Latino culture, it can be labeled as racism and ethnicism. 1 Perhaps the most notable example of how people that potentially harbor racism-ethnicism toward Latinos express their beliefs in statements

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