Colonial Mesoamerican Ethnohistory
A Special Teaching and Research Collection for The Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8878331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josh Anthony (McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-76 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/tam.2025.10115 |
| OpenAlex | W4417221461 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 443 |
The study of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America during the colonial era has long been a central pillar in the historiography of Latin America. This essay, a contribution to the TAM Vault series, provides an overview of colonial Mesoamerican ethnohistory through a quantitative and qualitative study of relevant articles and book reviews published in The Americas. My primary goal in writing this essay is to demonstrate how increased attention to Indigenous-language sources, beginning in the 1990s, has transformed the writing of colonial history in Mexico and Central America. By tracking data from relevant publications and analyzing the debates and discussions featured in the journal, I construct a chronological historiography of colonial Mesoamerican ethnohistory from 1944 through 2019
Colonialism · Construct (python library · Ethnohistory · Historiography · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Historical Studies in Central America · Latin American history and culture · Politics and Society in Latin America
Nahua Intellectuals, Franciscan Scholars, and the Devotio Moderna in Colonial Mexico
Memorial de Sololá—Anales de los Kakchiqueles. Translated into Spanish, with introduction and notes, by Adrián Recinos. Titulo de los Señores de Totonicapán . Translated into Spanish by Dionisio José Chonay, with introduction and notes by Adrián Recinos. (México
Antigua Guatemala. Memorias de Fray Antonio de Molina, continuadas y marginadas por Fray Agustin Cano y Fray Francisco Ximénez, de la Orden de Santo Domingo. Edited, with prologue, notes and index, by Prof. Jorge del Valle Matheu. (Guatemala, Centro-América
Adopted Pedagogies
The Tales of Two Cultures
“What in the World Have You Done To Me, My Lover?” Sex, Servitude, and Politics among the Pre-Conquest Nahuas as seen in the Cantares Mexicanos
Households in Late Prehispanic and Early Colonial Mexico City
Defending Corporate Identity on New Spain's Northeastern Frontier
The Cortés Codex of Vienna and Emperor Ferdinand I
Witnesses, Spatial Practices, And a Land Dispute in Colonial Oaxaca
Fray Jerónimo de Alcalá
The Traffic in Indian Slaves in the Province of Pánuco, New Spain, 1523-1533
Our Lady in the Kernel of Corn, 1774
Cochineal Production and Trade in New Spain to 1600
Fray Juan De Zumárraga–His Social Contributions
M asters of the L and
The Emergence of Alphabetic Writing
A Scholarly Debate
A Social Welfare Organizer in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Some Business Activities of Cortés
The Books of Don Fray Juan De Zumárraga
Crosses, Caves, and Matachinis
New Light on the Sources of Torquemada's Monarchia Indiana
The Construction of Santa Fe De México
The Forests Cannot Be Commons”
Don Fray Alonso de Montúfar, Second Archbishop of Mexico, and the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Bartolomé de las Casas, Judge Alonso de Zorita, and the Franciscans
War by Fire and Blood ” The Church and the Chichimecas 1585
El Yndio Mas Venturoso’
The Franciscan Contribution to Mexican Culture
Moctezuma and Spaniards
Caldera of New Spain
R emote S tories , L ocal M eanings
Writing by Caste, Counting the Past
Land in Spanish Enterprise
A Scattering of Jades
Notes on the Franciscans in the Huasteca Region of Mexico
The Indians of America and Christianity
Like Herod's Massacre”
The Contribution of Bishop Juan De Zumárraga to Mexican Culture
Jesuit Historians of Sinaloa-Sonora
The Will of Nuño de Guzmán; President, Governor and Captain General of New Spain and the Province of Pánuco, 1558
The Encomienda in Latin-American History
Franciscan Missionary Scholars in Colonial Central America
Unpublished Letters of the First Bishops of Mexico and Oaxaca, 1537
Bishop Marroquin–Zumárraga’s Gift to Central America
The Ilhuica of the Nahua
A Seventeenth-Century Encomienda
Entre el desierto y la sierra
The Caravajal Visitation
Language Politics and Indigenous Language Documents
Labor in Cortesian Enterprise
Fray Juan de Zumárraga, Protector of the Indians
Peacemaking on North America's First Frontier
The Native Encounter with Christianity
T races of A ztec C ultural M emory in S ixteenth -C entury S ongs and C hronicles
Report on the Missions by the Franciscan Commissary General of the Indies (1612)
Promises and Deceits” Marriage among Indians in New Spain in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Some Mining Operations of Cortes in Tehuantepec, 1538–1547
Toribio Motolinía and His Historical Writings
The Politics of Conquest
Fray Juan De Zumárraga and Indian Policy in New Spain
Ancient and Colonial Zapotec and Mixtec Calendars
The Chronicles of the Early Seventeenth Century
Puro tlaxcalteca? Ethnic Integrity and Consciousness in Late Seventeenth-Century Northern New Spain
A Note on Torquemada’s Native Sources and Historiographical Methods
Demographic Change in Northwestern New Spain
A New Millenarian
Don Fray Juan De Zumárraga Pioneer of European Culture in America
Alonso de Zorita
Mesolore
Water” in Mexican Place Names
Tehuacán–Franciscan Outpost
The Church and the Repartimientos in the Light of the Third Mexican Council, 1585
Reading the Inquisitorial Record in Yucatán
Mysterious Malinche
The Deportation of Barbarian Indians from the Internal Provinces of New Spain, 1789-1810
Broken Spears or Broken Bones
Small Particulars
Public Works and Local Elites
Primer for a New World
Fernando Cortés and the Cuernavaca Encomiendas, 1522–1547
Ruy González's 1553 Letter to Emperor Charles V An Annotated Translation
The King's Copper Mine
The Herbal of the Florentine Codex
Clavigero
Placing the Cross in Colonial Mexico
Caciques and Conversion
The Conquest of Mexico The Views of the Chroniclers
Some Remarks On The Term “Aztec Empire”
The Obraje in the Late Méxican Colony
History versus Juan Diego
Black Belizeans and Fugitive Mayas
A Good Neighbor Policy of the XVI Century
The Franciscan Contribution to Maya Linguistic Research in Yucatan
The Indian Population of Southern Guatemala, 1549-1551
P eace C ame in the S ign of the C ross
Civil Congregation of the Western Chinantec, New Spain, 1599–1603
Fray Francisco de Tembleque
O f M adres and M ayordomas
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |