| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

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 + 300 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.)

"How are we to explain the persistence of ethnic identity in some cases and not in others under conditions of conquest?" (p. 2) To answer this question, Susan Deeds's Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North studies the development of Jesuit missions and their relationships with indigenous groups on the Nueva Vizcaya frontier of Spanish colonialism over two centuries (1560–1760). She argues that indigenous peoples responded to colonialism's spiritual and material demands with "mediated opportunism." Indigenous groups' abilities to maintain their ethnic identities were determined by multiple factors, including the features of pre-contact Native groups, the timing and nature of encounter, conquest and colonization, and geography and environment. Deeds seeks to explain why the Acaxee and Xixime peoples disappeared, while the Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras survived and maintained ethnic identities in the face of Spanish colonialism.

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