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Judith Francis Zeitlin - Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500-1750 - 9780804733885 - V9780804733885
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Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500-1750

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Description for Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500-1750 Hardback. This book is a historical and archaeological examination of the prehispanic Isthmus Zapotec state, and the responses that its descendant populations made to the complex political, economic, and cultural changes introduced by Spanish colonialism. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 table, 6 figures, 23 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HDD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.

This book is a historical and archeological examination of the Isthmus Zapotec state, which was established at Tehuantepec in late prehispanic times through a campaign of conquest and colonization, and the responses that its descendant populations made to the complex political, economic, and cultural changes introduced by Spanish colonialism.

Although the modern-day Isthmus Zapotecs are renowned in Mexico and among Latin Americanists for their vibrant cultural traditions and their legacy of political resistance, only isolated elements of the complex historical processes by which these patterns emerged have been studied previously. Using complementary archival and archeological sources, the book details ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804733885
SKU
V9780804733885
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Ref
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About Judith Francis Zeitlin
Judith Francis Zeitlin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is co-editor of Caciques and their People (1994).

Reviews for Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500-1750
"...an insightful and deeply researched work."
Itinerario "Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec represents a welcome addition to the regional ethnohistories that constitute an important genre in the history of early Mexico... The book is striking in detailing each historical period through as many types of sources as possible—archaeological remains, pictorial and alphabetic texts, linguistic data, and oral traditions—rather than, ... Read more

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