Negotiation Within Domination : New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and Map -- Foreword -- NOTES -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction-Back to the Future -- NOTES -- 2 Empire, Indians, and the Negotiation for the Status of City in Tlaxcala, 1521-1550 -- TLAXCALAN NOBLES AND THE STATUS OF CONQUISTADORS -- THE ROYAL BUREAUCRACY IN THE AMERICAS -- NEGOTIATION IN A SHIFTING POLITICAL LANDSCAPE -- THE LOYAL AND NOBLE CITY OF TLAXCALA -- LOCAL ROYAL OFFICIALS AND MUNICIPAL AUTONOMY -- MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 3 Fighting Destiny -- ENCOMENDEROS CONSPIRE -- THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE FRIARS -- HIGH-LEVEL INDIGENOUS POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 Indigenous Centurions and Triumphal Arches -- THE PROCESS OF NEGOTIATION OVER INDIGENOUS BUILDERS OF TRIUMPHAL ARCHES -- INDIGENOUS CENTURIONS MAKE HOLY WEEK COMMERCIAL CONNECTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 5 The Power of the Law -- THE REGION -- METHOD OF ANALYSIS -- THE VILLAGES OF THE SIERRA -- THE OBSCURE MANTLE OF THE LAW: A CASE STUDY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 6 Costumbre -- PRELUDE TO NEGOTIATION: REBELLION, REPRESSION, AND REFORM -- COSTUMBRE IN THE PARISH OF SAN JUAN TANETZE-SAN JUAN YAE -- COSTUMBRE AS LEGAL RHETORICAL STRATEGY -- THE AUDIENCIA'S DECISION: A RATIONALIZATION OF COSTUMBRE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 7 Peace Agreements and War Signals -- TIMES OF REFORM AND DEFINITION -- THE TREATY WITH THE COMANCHES IN TEXAS -- THE TREATY WITH THE COMANCHES IN NEW MEXICO -- FIRST NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE APACHES: THE MOST AGGRESSIVE NATION, 1779-1782 -- PERSEVERANCE AND FAILURE, 1787-1788 -- FINAL REFLECTIONS: THE NEGOTIATIONS IN PERSPECTIVE -- NOTES -- 8 Waterways, Legal Ways, and Ethnic Interactions -- THE UNCONQUERABLE MAYA OF NOHÁ -- THE UNPACIFIED MAYEROS OF THE JUNGLE PUEBLO OF YUCUM -- RETURNING TO THE ANCIENT PUEBLO: THE FUGITIVE MAYA OF XICALANGO.

THE "LEGENDARY ENEMIES" OF THE LACANDONES -- THE YUCATECAN "LACANDONES" OF SAN JOSÉ DE GRACIA REAL -- FINAL OBSERVATIONS ON THESE EPISODES -- NOTES -- Afterword: The Consequences of Negotiation -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Footnote.

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