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Article: The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2005
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The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. By Kevin Terraciano (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv plus 514 pp.).
Scholars of pre-conquest and colonial Spanish America have long worked with native codices, inscriptions, the early sixteenth-century chronicles produced by native writers, and other sorts of indigenous texts, to reconstruct the realities of native life during the transition from pre-Hispanic times to colonial rule. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so, however, that North American scholars in particular have made massive use of post-conquest-era native-language texts written in the ...