John K Chance
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 123086 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John K Chance |
| NOMBRES | John K |
| APELLIDO | Chance |
| FIRMA | CHANCE J K |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 388 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Ecology of Race and Class in Late Colonial Oaxaca
The use of quantitative sources in studies of colonial Latin American societies has become increasingly sophisticated. Analyses of census data in particular have provided new insights into social structure and social change, especially in urban areas. This chapter provides new data on the residential patterns of racial and occupational groups in a late colonial Mexican city, applying to them some statistical indexes of segregation developed by No…
Urban Indians in a Silver City
Urban Indians in a Silver City is a valuable contribution to the small but growing literature on urban Indian societies in colonial Spanish America. It traces the history of Indian residents in the silver mining center of Zacatecas from the city’s founding in 1546 on the northern frontier of New Spain to the eve of Mexican Independence in 1810. Based on thorough archival research, the volume addresses Indians’ urban economic roles (with notable a…
The Strategies of Provincials in Empires
Empires, with their varied histories and characteristics, have been subjected to considerable scholarly scrutiny to detect recurrent imperial problems and their attempted solutions. Not so the provinces. Provincial people also face new challenges and opportunities in empires, but they have seldom been accorded the same degree of comparative study. This chapter is one way station in that effort. In the intensive versus systematic spectrum of compa…
Los Villagómez de Suchitepec, Oaxaca
El cacicazgo persistió más tiempo en la Mixteca Baja de Oaxaca occidental y Puebla meridional que en muchas otras partes de Nueva España. Este artículo delinea la historia del segundo cacicazgo en tamaño de la región, el de los Villagómez de Suchitepec, Oaxaca, en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Este estudio de caso ilumina algunas tendencias generales en la Mixteca Baja de la época, incluso el retiro de muchos caciques de los cargos políticos y sus rela…
From Lord to Landowner
In her survey of the indigenous cacicazgo (lordly estate) in New Spain, Margarita Menegus Bornemann (2005) asks why previous studies of this hybrid Indian/Spanish institution have emphasized property and neglected the owners' seigniorial relations with their subject commoner populations. This paper attempts an answer to this question for the Mixteca Baja region in southern Mexico, positing a shift in cacicazgo management away from direct involvem…
Marriage Alliances among Colonial Mixtec Elites
Marriage alliances among governing families were an important instrument of political integration in Postclassic Mesoamerica, especially in Mixteca. Alliances among Mixtec nobles persisted during the colonial period, although after the sixteenth century, the caciques lost much of their political power to the gobernadores and indigenous town councils. This article investigates the significance of alliances among Mixtec caciques through the marriag…
Alianzas matrimoniales coloniales entre caciques mixtecos
Las alianzas matrimoniales entre familias gobernantes fueron un instrumento importante de integración política en la Mesoamérica Posclásica, especialmente en la Mixteca. Estas alianzas entre los nobles mixtecos persistieron a través de la época colonial, aunque después del siglo XVI los caciques perdieron mucho de su poder político ante los gobernadores y los Cabildos. En este ensayo investigo el significado de las alianzas entre caciques mixteco…
Alianzas matrimoniales coloniales entre caciques mixtecos
Marriage alliances among governing families were an important instrument of political integration in Postclassic Mesoamerica, especially in the Mixteca. Alliances among Mixtec nobles persisted during the colonial period, although after the sixteenth century the caciques lost much of their political power to the gobernadores and the Cabildos. In this essay I investigate the significance of alliances among Mixtec caciques through the marriages of e…
Caminos de luz y sombra
This book on the history of the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca during the nineteenth century is, in some respects, a synthesis of previous scholarship, but it is also informed by the author’s own research on selected topics. Reina Aoyama emphasizes political and economic themes, including the War of Independence, agrarian politics and liberal reforms, the agrarian economy, indigenous rebellions, community political reforms, and the civil-religious …
Haciendas, Ranchos, and Indian Towns
Traditional views of rural central Mexico during the colonial period commonly overlook the role of the small, subsistence-oriented Spanish ranchos,which in the vicinity of Santiago Tecali, Puebla, far outnumbered the larger hacienda estates. In Tecali, dealings of the local Nahua elite with the ranchos and their proprietors were of greater social and economic import than those with the haciendas. This case study raises questions about the timewor…
Of Things of the Indies
Book Review| April 01 2002 Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History By James Lockhart. (Stanford, : Stanford University Press,2000. xxiv + 397 pp., preface, appendix, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth,$22.95 paper.) John K. Chance John K. Chance Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 424–426. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-2-424 Views Icon Views Article conten…
Race, Caste, and Status
Journal Article Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America. By Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. x, 151 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8263-2108-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8263-1894-0.) John K. Chance John K. Chance Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 6…
The Noble House in Colonial Puebla, Mexico
Claude Lévi-Strauss's concept of the 'house" has proven to be a viable alternative to traditional lineage theory in the study of many societies, and this paper applies the house concept to a Mesoamencan case. The teccalli, or noble house, was an important aspect of Nahua (Aztec) sociopolitical organization in prchispanic and early colonial central Mexico, particularly in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley. It is often characterized as a lineage with righ…
Shadows over Anahuac
Two Worlds Merging
This study originates in the surprise about the scarcity of modem historiography of late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Mexican history.As with many historians and social scientists my interest sprang from the question how a society evolves, which for me is to say, how the several 'sectors' of society interrelate.In the case of early Mexican history the question was how two different cultures influenced each other.Naturally, questions of…
Chipping Away on Earth
The Caciques of Tecali
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Tempe, Arizona, November 10-13, 1994. Research was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. I wish to thank Frederic Hicks and Stephen Perkins for their comments on the meeting paper, and Perkins, Michael Barton, and Julia Hernandez de Chance for their help with the transcription and tabulation of Tecali's marriage recor…
Mesoamerica's Ethnographic Past
Pour l'etude de la Mesoamerique, l'ethnohistoire et l'ethnographie presentent des methodologies differentes mais elles ont une meme fin : la science des societes humaines dans le temps. Alors que la premiere s'interesse au changement culturel et au caractere ancien du passe, la seconde se penche davantage sur la continuite culturelle. L'A. souhaiterait une relation interdisciplinaire et que l'ethnographie prenne plus en consideration l'histoire e…
Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700
The Barrios of Colonial Tecali
In a review of Mesoamerican kinship studies two decades ago, Nutini (1976:14) noted that the barrio in Mesoamerican communities 'remains a rather obscure unit of social organization.' Since then, it seems, not much has changed. Nutini and Bell (1980:32) have added some new details for Tlaxcala; Hill and Monaghan (1987) have documented the persistence of the Quiche-Cakchiquel chinamit in Sacapulas, Guatemala; and Bock (1980) and Lomnitz (1982) hav…
Ideology and Pre-Colombian Civilizations
Ideology and Pre-Colombian Civilizations
The essays in this volume were originally presented at a 1987 seminar, sponsored by the School of American Research, that focused on the role of ideology in the rise of New World civilizations.In seven core chapters, archaeologists involved with large field projects assess the importance of ideological factors for understanding the Olmecs (David C. Grove and
Taricuri's Legacy
Coleccion de documentos del archivo general de la nacion para la etnohistoria de la Mixteca de Oaxaca en el siglo XVI
The Nahuas after the Conquest
Cofradías and Cargos
Most accounts of the Mesoamerican civil-religious hierarchy assume either a pre-Hispanic or colonial formation of the system, despite the lack of convincing evidence. This paper presents unpublished archival data on colonial cofradias and civil cargos from four regions of Mexico: Jalisco, central Mexico, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Sierra Zapoteca of Oaxaca. It is argued that while a civil hierarchy was well developed in colonial times, the civ…
Race and class in colonial Oaxaca
Estate and Class in a Colonial City
Colonial Latin American societies have generally been presented as systems of estates following forms that were firmly entrenched in Europe before the Spanish conquest in America, an estate being 'a legally defined segment of the population of a society which has distinctive rights and duties established by law' (Lenski 1966:77). Lyle McAlister suggests that the American equivalent of a threefold European system of noble-clergy-commoner estates w…
The Noble House in Colonial Puebla, Mexico
Claude Lévi-Strauss's concept of the 'house" has proven to be a viable alternative to traditional lineage theory in the study of many societies, and this paper applies the house concept to a Mesoamencan case. The teccalli, or noble house, was an important aspect of Nahua (Aztec) sociopolitical organization in prchispanic and early colonial central Mexico, particularly in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley. It is often characterized as a lineage with righ…
Mesoamerica's Ethnographic Past
Pour l'etude de la Mesoamerique, l'ethnohistoire et l'ethnographie presentent des methodologies differentes mais elles ont une meme fin : la science des societes humaines dans le temps. Alors que la premiere s'interesse au changement culturel et au caractere ancien du passe, la seconde se penche davantage sur la continuite culturelle. L'A. souhaiterait une relation interdisciplinaire et que l'ethnographie prenne plus en consideration l'histoire e…
The Caciques of Tecali
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Tempe, Arizona, November 10-13, 1994. Research was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. I wish to thank Frederic Hicks and Stephen Perkins for their comments on the meeting paper, and Perkins, Michael Barton, and Julia Hernandez de Chance for their help with the transcription and tabulation of Tecali's marriage recor…
Estate and Class
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The Barrios of Colonial Tecali
In a review of Mesoamerican kinship studies two decades ago, Nutini (1976:14) noted that the barrio in Mesoamerican communities 'remains a rather obscure unit of social organization.' Since then, it seems, not much has changed. Nutini and Bell (1980:32) have added some new details for Tlaxcala; Hill and Monaghan (1987) have documented the persistence of the Quiche-Cakchiquel chinamit in Sacapulas, Guatemala; and Bock (1980) and Lomnitz (1982) hav…
Race, Caste, and Status
Journal Article Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America. By Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. x, 151 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8263-2108-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8263-1894-0.) John K. Chance John K. Chance Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 6…
Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica
The urbanx Indian in colonial Oaxaca1
Documentary sources from Mexican and Spanish archives are used to analyze ethnicity and ethnic change among the urban Indians in the Spanish city of Antequera (now called Oaxaca) in colonial Mexico. After briefly reviewing the ethnography of the Valley of Oaxaca at the time of Spanish contact, I will discuss the ethnic boundaries among the Nahuas, Zapotecs, and Mixtecs of Antequera, the relation of the Indians to other socioracial categories in t…
Haciendas, Ranchos, and Indian Towns
Traditional views of rural central Mexico during the colonial period commonly overlook the role of the small, subsistence-oriented Spanish ranchos,which in the vicinity of Santiago Tecali, Puebla, far outnumbered the larger hacienda estates. In Tecali, dealings of the local Nahua elite with the ranchos and their proprietors were of greater social and economic import than those with the haciendas. This case study raises questions about the timewor…
On the Mexican Mestizo
No one with even a passing acquaintance with the literature on Mexican society, not to mention the rest of Spanish America, can fail to be impressed by the frequent use of the term mestizo. Despite its ubiquity in the writings of social scientists, however, the concept of the mestizo is customarily employed in a vague fashion and usually left undefined. This is especially evident in the work of anthropologists, who for many years have been preocc…
Two Worlds Merging
This study originates in the surprise about the scarcity of modem historiography of late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Mexican history.As with many historians and social scientists my interest sprang from the question how a society evolves, which for me is to say, how the several 'sectors' of society interrelate.In the case of early Mexican history the question was how two different cultures influenced each other.Naturally, questions of…
Justice by Insurance
As Western Europe expanded its empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it came to dominate many peoples, especially in America, whose cultures and legal systems differed dramatically from its own. The resulting conflicts of both law and custom posed difficult problems: How could these conflicting laws and customs be adjusted within a common political administration? And, in particular, how could legal remedy be provided for groups of …
A Jesuit Hacienda in Colonial Mexico
From Lord to Landowner
In her survey of the indigenous cacicazgo (lordly estate) in New Spain, Margarita Menegus Bornemann (2005) asks why previous studies of this hybrid Indian/Spanish institution have emphasized property and neglected the owners' seigniorial relations with their subject commoner populations. This paper attempts an answer to this question for the Mixteca Baja region in southern Mexico, positing a shift in cacicazgo management away from direct involvem…
Marriage Alliances among Colonial Mixtec Elites
Marriage alliances among governing families were an important instrument of political integration in Postclassic Mesoamerica, especially in Mixteca. Alliances among Mixtec nobles persisted during the colonial period, although after the sixteenth century, the caciques lost much of their political power to the gobernadores and indigenous town councils. This article investigates the significance of alliances among Mixtec caciques through the marriag…
Chipping Away on Earth
Latin American Urbanization
Latin American Urbanisation
Alianzas matrimoniales coloniales entre caciques mixtecos
Las alianzas matrimoniales entre familias gobernantes fueron un instrumento importante de integración política en la Mesoamérica Posclásica, especialmente en la Mixteca. Estas alianzas entre los nobles mixtecos persistieron a través de la época colonial, aunque después del siglo XVI los caciques perdieron mucho de su poder político ante los gobernadores y los Cabildos. En este ensayo investigo el significado de las alianzas entre caciques mixteco…
Maya Society under Colonial Rule
This book traces the history of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico, during a four-hundred-year period from late preconquest times through the end of Spanish rule in 1821. Nancy Farriss combines the tools of the historian and the anthropologist to reconstruct colonial Maya society and culture as a web of interlocking systems, from ecology and modes of subsistence through the corporate family and the community to the realm of the sacred. She shows…
Handbook of Middle American Indians
Handbook of Middle American Indians
The urbanx Indian in colonial Oaxaca1
Documentary sources from Mexican and Spanish archives are used to analyze ethnicity and ethnic change among the urban Indians in the Spanish city of Antequera (now called Oaxaca) in colonial Mexico. After briefly reviewing the ethnography of the Valley of Oaxaca at the time of Spanish contact, I will discuss the ethnic boundaries among the Nahuas, Zapotecs, and Mixtecs of Antequera, the relation of the Indians to other socioracial categories in t…
Estate and Class in a Colonial City
Colonial Latin American societies have generally been presented as systems of estates following forms that were firmly entrenched in Europe before the Spanish conquest in America, an estate being 'a legally defined segment of the population of a society which has distinctive rights and duties established by law' (Lenski 1966:77). Lyle McAlister suggests that the American equivalent of a threefold European system of noble-clergy-commoner estates w…
Race and class in colonial Oaxaca
In search of zapotec culture
Joseph W. Whitecotton. The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests and Peasants. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $14.95
Estate and Class
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca
On the Mexican Mestizo
No one with even a passing acquaintance with the literature on Mexican society, not to mention the rest of Spanish America, can fail to be impressed by the frequent use of the term mestizo. Despite its ubiquity in the writings of social scientists, however, the concept of the mestizo is customarily employed in a vague fashion and usually left undefined. This is especially evident in the work of anthropologists, who for many years have been preocc…
Recent Trends in Latin American Urban Studies
Latin American urban studies have reached a critical juncture. Depending on one's point of view, the current state of the art presages either important conceptual breakthroughs or a methodological and theoretical conundrum of crisis proportions. There seems to be a growing feeling among researchers that the field has vegetated for the past several years without producing many new insights into urban phenomena. Meanwhile, data keep piling up and f…
A Jesuit Hacienda in Colonial Mexico
Latin American Urbanisation
Latin American Urbanization
Latin American Urbanization
Latin American Migrations and Migrants
Latin American Urbanization
Struggle and Survival in Colonial America
Sons of the Wind
Justice by Insurance
As Western Europe expanded its empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it came to dominate many peoples, especially in America, whose cultures and legal systems differed dramatically from its own. The resulting conflicts of both law and custom posed difficult problems: How could these conflicting laws and customs be adjusted within a common political administration? And, in particular, how could legal remedy be provided for groups of …
Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica
Explorations in Ethnohistory
Maya Society under Colonial Rule
This book traces the history of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico, during a four-hundred-year period from late preconquest times through the end of Spanish rule in 1821. Nancy Farriss combines the tools of the historian and the anthropologist to reconstruct colonial Maya society and culture as a web of interlocking systems, from ecology and modes of subsistence through the corporate family and the community to the realm of the sacred. She shows…
Five Centuries of Law and Politics in Central Mexico
Class and Society in Central Chiapas. Robert Wasserstrom
Cofradías and Cargos
Most accounts of the Mesoamerican civil-religious hierarchy assume either a pre-Hispanic or colonial formation of the system, despite the lack of convincing evidence. This paper presents unpublished archival data on colonial cofradias and civil cargos from four regions of Mexico: Jalisco, central Mexico, the Valley of Oaxaca, and the Sierra Zapoteca of Oaxaca. It is argued that while a civil hierarchy was well developed in colonial times, the civ…
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