Accommodation and Resistance of Elites in Transition

H E need for reciprocity after the first violent confrontation in early colonial Latin America was quickly acknowledged by Indians and Spaniards alike. Conqueror and missionary turned to individuals among the native elites to seek support for their goals in exchange for patronage and alliance that would ensure the elites' survival under the ruthless colonial regime. For the native elites, this demanded a subtle application of diverse strategies and skills in an ongoing process of negotiation with the Spaniard. The ability of native elite members to maneuver within the newly established order of the colonial regime and their access to independent initiatives were very much determined, however, by the social and political structures of their society prior to the Spanish conquest. In areas like the province of Chiapa, on the southern edge of the Mexica empire, and in Yucatan, the fall of the major centers had long since left its impact on local hierarchies. Under Spanish rule in Yucatan, for example, territorial rulers (halach vinic) were swiftly reduced to the status of lords governing much smaller units. Local traditional hierarchies in civil and religious matters remained basically unchanged by the conquest, but their authority shrank to the sphere of the community.' In these areas, responses to the challenges of conquest and Christianization were likely to take the form

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