Dana Velasco Murillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 453151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Velasco Murillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana Velasco |
| FAMILY NAME | Murillo |
| SIGNATURE | MURILLO D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1555-4164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Overlooked Places and Peoples
To search and claim’
Indigenous people played a critical though unacknowledged role in the discovery of silver in sixteenth-century Spanish America. This article uncovers the roles and experiences of indigenous prospectors in New Spain (Mexico) and Peru. In the early decades of the colonial project, Iberians relied heavily on the knowledge and skill of native prospectors because they had little to no experience or training in mining. Drawing on a vibrant precontact t…
Introduction
Contesting Conquest
Modern local history in Spanish American historiography
This article considers the role of modern local history on the Anglophone Spanish American scholarship (1492‐1825). Modern local history developed in the mid‐twentieth century as a type of historical inquiry focused on the study of specific peoples, institutions, or processes in a defined locality. This essay identifies the topics, methodologies, and sources, employed by scholars of Spanish America, highlighting some recent examples from the vice…
Transatlantic Obligations
In the preconquest period, the Nahuas, the indigenous peoples of central Mexico, spoke of family in terms of larger kinship units that shared a common space—cemithualtin, “those of one patio.”1 Mangan’s beautifully written and exhaustively researched book inspires the question of whether colonial families should be described as cemailuikatltin, those of one ocean. Mangan’s book reconsiders the concept of family within the sixteenth-century Spanis…
Gendered Crossings
In the 1770s, dramatic changes were occurring along the southern coast of South America (current-day Uruguay and Argentina). Improvements in transportation and a growing demand for hides for an industrializing and expanding Europe generated the east coast revolution, transforming a then-peripheral region in Spain's American empire into a vibrant and important economic zone. As it exported goods across the Atlantic, the scarcely populated Río de l…
For the Last Time, Once and for All
This article examines a series of fights, called saçemis, between indigenous peoples and Spanish campaigns to suppress them in the silver-mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico. Between 1587 and 1628 rival groups gathered in indigenous neighborhoods to engage in large-scale, sometimes lethal fights using rocks and other weapons. Colonial officials did not undertake a vigorous campaign to suppress the fights until they affected Spanish spaces and econom…
Laboring Above Ground
This article considers the roles and experiences of indigenous women in the silver mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico, from the early seventeenth century through the late colonial period (1620-1770). Indigenous women of all ages and civil statuses migrated and settled in Zacatecas through the colonial period. Using Spanish sources, this article highlights the importance of their contributions to the production of silver and to the settlement of the…
The Creation of Indigenous Leadership in a Spanish Town
This article discusses the creation and evolution of indigenous government in the colonial silver-mining town of Zacatecas. Initially, nonnoble native migrants from central and western Mexico constituted the basis of the city's indigenous population. Living in informal settlements on the outskirts of town, indigenous communities possessed no hereditary leaders and few vehicles for redress and governance. Over time, the city's indigenous groups ad…
Laboring Above Ground
This article considers the roles and experiences of indigenous women in the silver mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico, from the early seventeenth century through the late colonial period (1620-1770). Indigenous women of all ages and civil statuses migrated and settled in Zacatecas through the colonial period. Using Spanish sources, this article highlights the importance of their contributions to the production of silver and to the settlement of the…
Introduction
For the Last Time, Once and for All
This article examines a series of fights, called saçemis, between indigenous peoples and Spanish campaigns to suppress them in the silver-mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico. Between 1587 and 1628 rival groups gathered in indigenous neighborhoods to engage in large-scale, sometimes lethal fights using rocks and other weapons. Colonial officials did not undertake a vigorous campaign to suppress the fights until they affected Spanish spaces and econom…
Overlooked Places and Peoples
The Creation of Indigenous Leadership in a Spanish Town
This article discusses the creation and evolution of indigenous government in the colonial silver-mining town of Zacatecas. Initially, nonnoble native migrants from central and western Mexico constituted the basis of the city's indigenous population. Living in informal settlements on the outskirts of town, indigenous communities possessed no hereditary leaders and few vehicles for redress and governance. Over time, the city's indigenous groups ad…
The Creation of Indigenous Leadership in a Spanish Town
This article discusses the creation and evolution of indigenous government in the colonial silver-mining town of Zacatecas. Initially, nonnoble native migrants from central and western Mexico constituted the basis of the city's indigenous population. Living in informal settlements on the outskirts of town, indigenous communities possessed no hereditary leaders and few vehicles for redress and governance. Over time, the city's indigenous groups ad…
Laboring Above Ground
This article considers the roles and experiences of indigenous women in the silver mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico, from the early seventeenth century through the late colonial period (1620-1770). Indigenous women of all ages and civil statuses migrated and settled in Zacatecas through the colonial period. Using Spanish sources, this article highlights the importance of their contributions to the production of silver and to the settlement of the…
For the Last Time, Once and for All
This article examines a series of fights, called saçemis, between indigenous peoples and Spanish campaigns to suppress them in the silver-mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico. Between 1587 and 1628 rival groups gathered in indigenous neighborhoods to engage in large-scale, sometimes lethal fights using rocks and other weapons. Colonial officials did not undertake a vigorous campaign to suppress the fights until they affected Spanish spaces and econom…
Modern local history in Spanish American historiography
This article considers the role of modern local history on the Anglophone Spanish American scholarship (1492‐1825). Modern local history developed in the mid‐twentieth century as a type of historical inquiry focused on the study of specific peoples, institutions, or processes in a defined locality. This essay identifies the topics, methodologies, and sources, employed by scholars of Spanish America, highlighting some recent examples from the vice…
Transatlantic Obligations
In the preconquest period, the Nahuas, the indigenous peoples of central Mexico, spoke of family in terms of larger kinship units that shared a common space—cemithualtin, “those of one patio.”1 Mangan’s beautifully written and exhaustively researched book inspires the question of whether colonial families should be described as cemailuikatltin, those of one ocean. Mangan’s book reconsiders the concept of family within the sixteenth-century Spanis…
Gendered Crossings
In the 1770s, dramatic changes were occurring along the southern coast of South America (current-day Uruguay and Argentina). Improvements in transportation and a growing demand for hides for an industrializing and expanding Europe generated the east coast revolution, transforming a then-peripheral region in Spain's American empire into a vibrant and important economic zone. As it exported goods across the Atlantic, the scarcely populated Río de l…
Contesting Conquest
To search and claim’
Indigenous people played a critical though unacknowledged role in the discovery of silver in sixteenth-century Spanish America. This article uncovers the roles and experiences of indigenous prospectors in New Spain (Mexico) and Peru. In the early decades of the colonial project, Iberians relied heavily on the knowledge and skill of native prospectors because they had little to no experience or training in mining. Drawing on a vibrant precontact t…
Introduction
Overlooked Places and Peoples
History (8 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Latin American history and culture (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works)