Land, Labor, and Indigenous Response: Huaquechula (Mexico), 1521–1633

Mysyk, Avis

doi:10.1080/10609164.2015.1086595

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“…During the colonial period, merchants served as liaisons between colonial officials and indigenous people, but also as intermediaries between cities and rural, isolated communities (Hoberman 1991;Altman et al, 2003;Baskes 2005). Exploitation of indigenous land and labor in these peripheral communities was a recurring theme throughout colonial Mexican history, and the petitions of indigenous peoples to the Crown and to the General Indian Courts for redresses against intruding Spanish settlers, colonial bureaucrats, and overzealous merchants were legion (Gibson 1964;Borah 1983;Prem 1988Prem , 1992Deans-Smith 1992;Melville 1994;Butzer and Butzer 1995;Owensby 2008;LaFevor 2012;Mysyk 2015).…”

Section: The Alpine Environment: Indigenous Land and Labormentioning

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Medicinal Snow as a Public Good: Indigenous Communities, Merchants, and Justice in Colonial Veracruz, Mexico

LaFevor¹,

Butzer²

2017

Journal of Latin American Geography

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In colonial Mexico (1521-1821, all territories and their natural resources were considered personal possessions of the Spanish Crown, integral parts of the royal estate, or Real Hacienda. The Crown managed these resources by imposing monopolies designed to generate revenue, which often came at great social cost. This paper examines how the Crown managed and controlled one of its lesser-known monopolies-the sale of snowand how the enterprise affected the most vulnerable members of society, in this case marginalized indigenous communities and poor, sickly residents in the city of Veracruz. In this tropical seaport, snow was a prized commodity used to treat yellow fever, which first appeared in the New World in 1647 and plagued Veracruz for centuries thereafter. Through transcription and analysis of unpublished colonial documents, we illustrate how the Crown was torn over whether to manage its snow monopoly as a profitable colonial industry or to deploy snow as a public good. Findings reveal how and why the Crown chose the latter option; namely, a form of governance that focused more on the equitable distribution of resources than it did on simple profit maximization.

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Section: The Alpine Environment: Indigenous Land and Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

Medicinal Snow as a Public Good: Indigenous Communities, Merchants, and Justice in Colonial Veracruz, Mexico

LaFevor¹,

Butzer²

2017

Journal of Latin American Geography

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A Dispute over Patrimonial Property in Huaquechula, Mexico: The Chimalhua Case, 1738–1740

Mysyk

Martínez

2020

Ethnohistory

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Throughout the colonial period, disputes over the inheritance of property were common among indigenous peoples, both nobles and commoners. From the outset, they became familiar with and adept at negotiating their interests from within the colonial legal system. Based on the corresponding archival document and map, this article explores how the Chimalhuas used this system to resolve an intrafamilial dispute over patrimonial property. The dispute was not one between equals but, because the Spanish legal system was flexible, its legal decisions arbitrary, both sides attempted to use late-colonial modes of argumentation, legal strategies, and status- and class-based rhetoric to their advantage. This article also considers how the wider context of indigenous population recovery and Spanish pressure on resources within which the dispute occurred had implications for two separate but related issues. First, the status of the Chimalhuas had declined and, second, the dispute was largely confined to the negotiation of individual interests.

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Land, Labor, and Indigenous Response: Huaquechula (Mexico), 1521–1633

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Medicinal Snow as a Public Good: Indigenous Communities, Merchants, and Justice in Colonial Veracruz, Mexico

Medicinal Snow as a Public Good: Indigenous Communities, Merchants, and Justice in Colonial Veracruz, Mexico

A Dispute over Patrimonial Property in Huaquechula, Mexico: The Chimalhua Case, 1738–1740

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