One Hundred Years of Mixe Wars: Prehispanic Territories, Bureaucratic Expansion, and Zapotec Influence in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec during the Sixteenth Century
Scattered colonial records referring to the area of Jaltepec, in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, reveal how Zapotecs and Spaniards gradually created during the sixteenth century a bureaucratic network which eventually led the former to succeed in their age-old war against the Mixes. Whereas the Zapote...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2007 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Historia Mexicana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/1611 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/1611 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mexico Oaxaca conquest indians 16th Century México conquista indígenas siglo XVI |
| Sumario: | Scattered colonial records referring to the area of Jaltepec, in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, reveal how Zapotecs and Spaniards gradually created during the sixteenth century a bureaucratic network which eventually led the former to succeed in their age-old war against the Mixes. Whereas the Zapotecs were already considered efficient and bureaucratic litigants by the first decade after Cortes' arrival, the insubordinate Mixes continued fighting during the whole century. The resulting documentary lag has led to the belief that the “Mixes of Oaxaca” lacked the more civilized Prehispanic history of those Mixes who quickly adopted Spanish literacy, as did their Zapotec enemies. However, a more geographicallyin formed reading of this ethnohistorical puzzle suggests that the presence and territorial coherence of the Mixes-Zoques-Popolucas of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Veracruz were greater that we suppose, and that Zapotec influence in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was a milestone in the Spanish colonization of America. |
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