Leslie S Offutt

Biographic Data

ID156264
NAMELeslie S Offutt
GIVEN NAMESLeslie S
FAMILY NAMEOffutt
SIGNATUREOFFUTT L S
AFFILIATIONSVassar College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Kevin Terraciano. Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico

    Open AccessLeslie Offutt, Leslie S OffuttARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

  • The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2020Cited by: 1

    The massive sixteenth-century mission churches of the mendicant orders dotting the central Mexican landscape even today cannot help but impress, emblematic of the early and, as traditional mission historiography would have it, hegemonic presence of the church in the lives of native peoples who labored to erect these monuments to Catholicism. These structures indeed stand as powerful statements, but, as Ryan Dominic Crewe argues, their meaning may…

  • Pueblos within Pueblos: Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692

    Leslie Offutt, Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2020

    Benjamin D. Johnson’s work centers the heretofore overlooked tlaxilacalli as the object of study over the course of four centuries of momentous change and transformation, revealing the dynamism with which tlaxilacalli responded to broader imperial transformations during the Aztec and early colonial eras. His argument complicates our thinking about the nature of tlaxilacalli, traditionally glossed as geographically bounded barrios, or neighborhood…

  • In the Lands of Fire and Sun: Resistance and Accommodation in the Huichol Sierra, 1723-1930

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2019

    Michele McArdle Stephens's slim volume explores the complex intertwining of land, religion, and ethnic identity among the Huichol peoples of northwestern Mexico, arguing that over the course of more than two centuries of contact with state authorities they “successfully defended their culture and communities through . . . an ongoing process of selective appropriation and contestation” (p. xxii). McArdle Stephens presents a people (or, given her e…

  • The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2019

    The remarkable breadth and depth of Lisa Sousa’s cross-cultural study of indigenous women in highland Mesoamerica make it a fine contribution to the growing body of colonial Mexican ethnohistorical and gender and sexuality studies. Weaving together information from an extensive archival, textual, and pictorial source base, Sousa explores the mundane worlds of indigenous women from the 1520s to the mid-eighteenth century. The geographical and them…

  • Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856

    Leslie Offutt, Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2014

    Book Review| July 01 2014 Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856 Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856. By Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. xii + 317 pp., preface, illustrations, bibliography, index. $40.00 paper.) Leslie Offutt Leslie Offutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 594–595. https://doi.org/10.1215/0014…

  • Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State

    Leslie Offutt, Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2012

    Book Review| April 01 2012 Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State. Edited by Medrano, Ethelia Ruiz and Kellogg, Susan. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2011. $70.00 cloth.) Leslie Offutt Leslie Offutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 433–435. https://doi.org…

  • Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley

    Leslie S OffuttREVIEWHispanic American Historical Review2011

    Over the course of the last two decades Central Mexican Nahuatl studies have flourished, a fact amply attested by the appearance of a number of monographs exploring the indigenous worlds of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Nahuatl-language documents that undergird those explorations have been mainly formal texts, such as those produced under the direction of friars, and more mundane notarial documents, most notably testaments. More re…

  • Hijos Del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2010Cited by: 1

    Book Review| April 01 2010 Hijos Del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850 . By Deborah E. Kanter. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. $55.00 cloth.) Leslie S. Offutt Leslie S. Offutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 350–352. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-078 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review S…

  • Rereading Conquest: Recent Works on the Conquests of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2009

    Review Article| January 01 2009 Rereading Conquest: Recent Works on the Conquests of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia Edited by Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A. Jackson. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xii + 231 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) By J. Michael Francis. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xix + 125 pp., foreword, preface, maps, bibliography, index. $19.95 p…

  • Politics, Economy, and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2009

    Book Review| April 01 2009 Politics, Economy, and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821 Edited by Jordana Dym and Christophe Belaubre. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. ix + 310 pp., introduction, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth.) Leslie S. Offutt Leslie S. Offutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 342–345. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-080 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon…

  • Defending Corporate Identity on New Spain's Northeastern Frontier: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, 1780-1810

    Open AccessLeslie S OffuttARTICLEThe Americas A Quarterly Review…2008Cited by: 5References: 10

    In 1808, confronted with the latest in a lengthy series of legal challenges to its corporate landholdings, the municipal council of the Indian town of San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, in the northeastern province of Coahuila in New Spain, dispatched a blistering note to its counterpart in the adjoining Spanish town of Saltillo. The question of the moment concerned the right of Saltillo residents José Miguel and Juan González to route water they cla…

  • Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2008Cited by: 5

    Juliana Barr invites her readers to “stand metaphorically in Indian country” (p. 295) and to consider Spanish efforts to establish a presence in eighteenth-century Texas not from the perspective of the “colonizing power” pursuing its imperial project but from within the world of the Indian peoples of Texas. She uncovers “a world in which Indians dictated the terms of contact, diplomacy, alliance, and enmity in their interactions with Spaniards” (…

  • Saltillo colonial: Orígenes y formación de una sociedad mexicana en la frontera norte

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2006

    Scholars of the Mexican north have long labored in the shadows of François Chevalier, whose model of rural development in northern New Spain, first articulated in the 1950s, was for a certain generation the introduction to systems of landholding and labor. The past three decades have found many of that generation writing against Chevalier, positing persuasive alternative models of development based on a more complex, contradictory picture (Eric V…

  • Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2005

    Book Review| April 01 2005 Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya By Susan M. Deeds. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii + 316 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, index.$55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Leslie S. Offutt Leslie S. Offutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 494–496. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…

  • From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2003

    Ross Frank’s examination of New Mexican society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on northern Mexico. Frank tells two stories here: one of the economic development of the province in the last decades of the colony, the other of the creation of a distinct “vecino” culture that even today distinguishes the region. From the adversity of the post-1750 period, New Mexican soc…

  • Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEEthnohistory2000

    Book Review| October 01 2000 Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America By Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. ix + 150 pp., introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.) Leslie S. Offutt Leslie S. Offutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 800–802. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-800 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …

  • New Views of Borderlands History

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1999

  • The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas

    Leslie Offutt, Leslie S Offutt et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1998

  • Ethnohistory of the Pacific Coast: Prehispanic and Colonial Life in Guatemala and Mexico

    Leslie S Offutt, Sandra L Orellana et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

  • Ethnohistory of the Pacific Coast: Prehispanic and Colonial Life in Guatemala and Mexico

    Leslie S OffuttARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

  • A Contest of Faiths: Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest

    Leslie S Offutt, Susan M YohnARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

  • The Wages of Conquest: The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of the Western Aristocracies

    Leslie Offutt, Leslie S Offutt et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1997

  • The Countryside in Colonial Latin America

    Leslie S Offutt, Louisa Schell Hoberman et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1997

  • Entre el desierto y la sierra: Las naciones O'odham y Tegüima de Sonora, 1530-1840

    Leslie S Offutt, Cynthia RaddingARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1996