Caciques and Their People: A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores

313 Pages·9.661 MB·English

by  edited by Joyce Marcus and Judith Francis Zeitlin

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Contents
List of Figures v
List of Tables vii
Preface, Joyce Marcus and Judith Francis Zeitlin ix
CHAPTER 1. Retired? You Must be Kidding! A Tribute to Ronald Spores,
Joyce Marcus and Kent V. Flannery 1
CHAPTER 2. Toward an Archaeology without Polarization: Comments on
Contemporary Theory, Gary M. Feinman 13
CHAPTER 3. Indian Elites in Late Colonial Mesoamerica, John K. Chance 45
CHAPTER 4. Xaltocan under Mexica Domination, 1435-1520,
Frederic Hicks 67
CHAPTER 5. The Obverse of the Codex of Cholula: Defining the Borders
of the Kingdom of Cholula, Michael Lind 87
CHAPTER 6. A Codex Style Vessel from Nochixtlan, Oaxaca,
John Paddock 101
CHAPTER 7. Why the Second Codex Selden Was Painted,
Mary Elizabeth Smith Ill
CHAPTER 8. Irrigation and Ecological Complementarity in Mixtec
Cacicazgos, John Monaghan 143
CHAPTER 9. Irrigation in Cuicatllin: The Question of Rfo Grande Waters,
Robert C. Hunt 163
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CHAPTER 10. The Cacicazgo: An Indigenous Design, Elsa M. Redmond
and Charles S. Spencer 189
CHAPTER 11. Indigenous Mentality and Spanish Power: The Conquest in
Oaxaca, Marfa de los Angeles Romero Frizzi 227
CHAPTER 12. A Zapotec Inauguration in Comparative Perspective,
Joyce Marcus 245
CHAPTER 13. Precolumbian Barrio Organization in Tehuantepec, Mexico,
Judith Francis Zeitlin 275
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Figures
1.1 Ronald Spores, the ethnographer, in the field 3
1.2 Ronald Spores examines Colonial documents 4
1.3 Ronald Spores with Dr. Manuel Esparza 5
1.4 Ronald Spores oversees an excavation into Mixtec prehistory 6
4.1 Map of Xaltocan and surrounding region in the Basin of Mexico 70
5.1 Indigenous layout of the Codex of Cholula 89
5. 2 Modern map of the Valley of Puebla 90
5.3 Topographic features in the Codex of Cholula 93
5.4 Topographic features in the modem Valley of Puebla 94
6.1 Photograph of Nochixtlan vessel 104
6.2 Photograph of Nochixtlan vessel 106
6.3 Photograph of Nochixtlan vessel 107
7 .I Map showing the Mixteca Alta, Mixteca Baja, and Mixteca de Ia Costa 112
7. 2 Map of the eastern Mixteca Alta 113
7. 3 The place sign of Zahuatlan 118
7.4 Genealogical tree of Manuel de los Reyes of J uxtlahuaca, 1783 125
8.1 Map of the Mixtec area, showing the "transitional zone" 145
9. I Map of the Cuicatec Canada: Atlatlauca to Quiotepec 170
9. 2 Map of the Cuicatec Canada: Dominguillo to Tecomavaca 171
10.1 Native cacicazgos of Hispaniola 200
10.2 Map of Tafno provinces 201
I 0. 3 Histogram of Tafno territories 207
10.4 Map showing Middle Formative sites in the Cuicatlan Canada 209
10.5 Map showing Classic sites in the Cuicatlan Canada 213
10.6 Map showing Postclassic sites in the Cuicatlan Canada 215
12.1 The Aztec Dedication Stone 251
12.2 The Mixtec ruler named 8 Deer "Tiger Claw" at his nose-piercing rite 254
12.3 The Mixtec ruler named 8 Deer "Tiger Claw" at his nose-piercing rite 255
12.4 The Mixtec ruler named 8 Deer "Tiger Claw" at his nose-piercing rite 255
12.5 Oval Tablet from Palenque, Mexico 256
12.6 Altar Q from Copan, Honduras 258
12.7 Stela II, Piedras Negras showing a newly inaugurated Maya ruler 259
12.8 Stela I, Monte Alban, Oaxaca 262
12.9 Stela 3, Monte Alban, Oaxaca 263
12.10 Stela 2, Monte Alban, Oaxaca 264
12.11 Stela 4, Monte Alban, Oaxaca 265
12.12 Teotihuacan visitors who attended the dedication of the South Platform at
Monte Alban, Oaxaca 267
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13.1 Plan of the Pante6n Antiguo site, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca 278
13.2 East face of the platform mound prior to excavation 279
13.3 Portico entrance to the "palacio" after excavation 281
13.4 Postclassic pottery types from the Pante6n Antiguo excavation and survey 282
13.5 Spatial limits of the Precolumbian and Colonial barrios 285
13.6 Indigenous-style 1580 map of the Tehuantepec province 286
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Tables
2.1 Valley of Oaxaca chronology from 1500 B.C.-A.D. 1500 28
3.1 Native Mesoamerican elites in the mid-eighteenth century 54
5.1 Topographic features of the Cholula region 96
7.la, b Final nine generations of Jaltepec's rulers in the Codex Selden 119, 120
9.1 Physical attributes of the Upper Basin of the Rio Papaloapan 167
9.2 Water flow per month, Rio Grande at Matamba Dam and Quiotepec 167
9.3 Storm surges in the Canada, 1950-1960 167
9.4 Rio Grande storm surges, hurricanes of 1969 168
9.5 Population estimates of Cuicatlan, Postclassic to modem times 174
9.6 Comparison of Rio Grande and tributaries 177
9.7 Volume of water flow per month for the Rio Grande and tributaries 177
10.1 Taino terms and the meanings assigned to them 194
10.2 Andres Morales' political geography of Hispaniola 197
10.3 Las Casas' political geography of Hispaniola 198
10.4 Rulers of principal provinces in fifteenth-century Hispaniola 202
10.5 Territorial extent of Taino provinces 211
10.6 The Canada de Cuicatlan's sixteenth-century cacicazgos and their territories 211
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Preface
JoYCE MARCUS AND JUDITH FRANCIS ZEITLIN
RoNALD M. SPORES---ethnohistorian, archaeologist, ethnologist-taught at Vander
bilt University from 1965 to 1993. In 1989 the editors began planning this volume
so that it would be ready to present to Spores upon his retirement from Vanderbilt.
Many of his friends and colleagues felt strongly that his intellectual contributions
to the field should be much more widely known, and his unfailing generosity to
other scholars should be acknowledged. All the contributors to this volume know
Spores well, and we hope that the book leads others to his work.
Although no single book could include articles from all the scholars who have
been influenced and inspired by Spores' ethnohistoric and archaeological studies,
this volume does bring together the work of fourteen of his friends, all of whom
have learned and benefitted from his careful scholarship.
Like Spores' own publications, the contributions in this volume range from
ethnological to archaeological to ethnohistoric, and from theoretical to empirical
and substantive. Many contributors integrate multiple lines of evidence, and some
compare different ethnic groups as "case studies." In this volume one can see
examples of the comparative approach, the direct historical approach, and the
evaluation of "degree of fit" between different lines of evidence. Those are the
kinds of approaches that typify Spores' work.
This volume, then, is both a tribute to Ronald Spores as well as a contribution
to the anthropology, ethnohistory, and archaeology of Mesoamerica.
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