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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Kevin Terraciano. The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 514. $65.00.

One Mesoamerican field unusually blessed with excellent scholars has been Mixtec studies. Kevin Terraciano's marvelous book is another link in a long chain of outstanding contributions. It builds on the work of Alfonso Caso, Barbro Dahlgren, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Ronald Spores, John Monaghan, Rodolfo Pastor, and María de los Angeles Romero Frizzi, adding important new insights gleaned from documents, written between 1571 and 1807, in Oaxacan archives. Although most documents are from Teposcolula and Yanhuitlan, a number come from other communities, enabling Terraciano to characterize the Mixtec region as a whole. 1

Of great significance is the fact that many of these documents (wills, land transactions, confessions in criminal cases, community fiscal records, baptisms, and tribute records) were written in Mixtec, allowing Terraciano to recover many native concepts. The author discusses a wide range of topics, including the nature of Mixtec communities (ñuu) and their subunits (siña, siqui, dzini); the organization of household labor and tribute obligations; royal residences and titles; gender relations; the cloth trade; beliefs surrounding Dzahui (the rain deity); and the interrelated nature of sacred and social relations. . . .

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