Macehuales and the Corporate Solution: Colonial Secessions in Nahua Central Mexico

Perkins, Stephen M.

doi:10.1525/msem.2005.21.2.277

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“…For example. Doña Francisca de la Cruz controlled 1,610 macehualli households (see Perkins 2007, Table 1). If we as.sume that each hou.sehold worked 0.17 hectares for her and produced an average 750 kilos of maize per hectare, the to-11.…”

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“…Research on early colonial historical sources has shown that these polities, also referred to as the tlahtocayo, were the core institutions of communities in south and central Puebla (Chance 1996(Chance , 2000Martinez 1984b;Olivera 1973Olivera , 1978Perkins 2005;Reyes 1988a). Tbey played a crucial role in the economy and were the principal means for the nobles to access lands and human resources.…”

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“…Historical documents show that the teccalli promoted a highly polarized system of land tenure (Berdan 1963;Carrasco 1969Carrasco , 1973Martínez 1984a;Perkins 2007;Reyes 1988b). Nobles possessed large patrimonial lands dispersed in different environmental regions.…”

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TerrazgueroSmallholders and the Function of Agricultural Tribute in Sixteenth-Century Tepeaca, Mexico.

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2012

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

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This work examines the role of agricultural tribute within sixteenth-century indigenous populations from the Tepeaca region. The allocation of agricultural areas to commoners was a crucial strategy for the support of local political institutions. However, such land allocations have not been calculated adequately due to our poor understanding of the local measurement units. This work estimates the size of agricultural tribute spaces by re-evaluating the equivalence between the ancient land measurements and the modern metric system. Doing so allows an assessment concerning food production within domestic households and the involvement of the political apparatus on their food subsistence base.Este trabajo examina la función del tributo agrícola entre las poblaciones indí-genas del siglo XVI en Tepeaca. La asignación de espacios agrícolas al sector comunal fue una estrategia trascendental para el soporte de las instituciones polí-ticas. Sin embargo, nuestro pobre entendimiento de las antiguas unidades de medida indígenas ha derivado en un cálculo inadecuado de dichas asignaciones. Este estudio reevaltia el tamañt) de las parcelas de tributo cotejando las antiguas formas de medición con el sistema métrico moderno. Esto permite evaluar la producción de alimentos a nivel del conjunto doméstico y la injerencia del aparato político sobre su base alimenticia.•The HUÍ Award ofthe Penn State University Department of Anthropology funded this work. We thank the valuable suggestions and comments of the anonymous reviewers.Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Vol 28. Issue 1, Winter 2012, pages li-9i. is.sN 0742-9797 electronic ISSN 1533-8320.

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TerrazgueroSmallholders and the Function of Agricultural Tribute in Sixteenth-Century Tepeaca, Mexico.

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2012

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“…The severe economic problems that have confronted Mexico since the late 1960s have pushed increasing numbers of individuals northward to the United States in search of the work and security unavailable to them in Mexico (Macias :293). Furthermore, processes of privatization, including the loss of indigenous land rights, have been undermining the relationship between indigenous populations and their territories (Velasco Ortiz :34–35; Pastor :262; Perkins ), and have been particularly harmful to community integrity for Mixtecos as well as other Oaxacan indigenous groups. The end result is that immigration is often the only way Mixtec communities can survive economically (Velasco Ortiz :35).…”

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3 Es nuestra tradicion: The Continuing Importance of Ballgames among Migrant Mixtec Communities in the United States

Stoll

2015

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The pre-Hispanic ballgame was integral in the lives of ancient Mesoamerican communities. Today, modern ballgames closely resembling their pre-Hispanic antecedents are still played in different states throughout Mexico. Here I explore the links between the modern ballgame pelota Mixteca (Mixtec ball) and ethnic identity in Mixtecan communities in Oaxaca and the United States, using data from ethnographic interviews with pelota Mixteca players. I conclude that because cultural traditions are important influences in the (re)shaping of identity, participation in Oaxacan traditions like pelota Mixteca is critical to the creation of a pan-Mixtecan identity among migrant Mixtec groups in the United States. [ballgames, ethnicity, Mixtecs, Oaxaca]

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“…They call attention to ‘interstitial agrarian sectors’ (including non‐indigenous smallholders) and to the modes of colonial governance in which the indigenous aristocracy continued to play an important, but not uncontested, role (Alexander 2003). A study by Perkins (2005), on the Puebla region, suggests that the latter power position was only undermined during the late colonial era, and that it was related to the emergence of new ‘corporate communities’ without pre‐Hispanic precedent. In contrast with Wolf's original thesis he asserts that the development of corporate communities was ‘associated with eighteenth‐century indigenous population growth, not decline, and commercial expansion, not depression’ (Perkins 2005, 301).…”

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Land Tenure and Tenure Regimes in Mexico: An Overview

Assies

2007

Journal of Agrarian Change

110

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This article provides an overview of the evolution of land tenure and tenure regimes in rural Mexico from colonial times to the present. It shows how, by the late nineteenth century, the dual system of indigenous communal tenure and Spanish and criollo landholdings was undermined by liberal legislation that sought to privatize community lands. This resulted in a process of disappropriation and concentration of land in a few hands, which created the setting for rural upheaval during the Mexican revolution and for the subsequent redistributive land reform and the creation of a ‘social sector’ consisting of ejidos and agrarian communities. By the 1960s, however, the reform sector began to enter into crisis. A reform of the Constitution and new agrarian legislation of 1992 opened the way to privatization of land in the social sector, expecting that this would dynamize production. It is shown that this has not been the case. In a context of globalization and asymmetric free‐trade relations the crisis has only deepened.

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Macehuales and the Corporate Solution: Colonial Secessions in Nahua Central Mexico

Cited by 6 publications

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TerrazgueroSmallholders and the Function of Agricultural Tribute in Sixteenth-Century Tepeaca, Mexico.

TerrazgueroSmallholders and the Function of Agricultural Tribute in Sixteenth-Century Tepeaca, Mexico.

3 Es nuestra tradicion: The Continuing Importance of Ballgames among Migrant Mixtec Communities in the United States

Land Tenure and Tenure Regimes in Mexico: An Overview

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