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From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty examines both continuity and
change over the last five centuries for the indigenous peoples of
Central Western Mexico, providing the first sweeping and
comprehensive regional history of this important region in
Mesoamerica. The continuities elucidated concern ancestral
territorial claims that date back centuries and reflect the stable
geographic locations occupied by core populations of indigenous
language-speakers in or near their pre-Columbian territories since
the Postclassical period, from the thirteenth to late fifteenth
centuries. A common theme of this volume is the strong cohesive
forces present, not only in the colonial construction of Christian
village communities in Purhepecha and Nahuatl groups in Michoacan
but also in the demographically less inclusive Huichol (Wixarika)
and Cora and Tepehuan groups, whose territories were more
extensive. The authors review a cluster of related themes:
settlement patterns of the last five centuries in Central Western
Mexico, language distribution, ritual representation of
territoriality, processes of collective identity, and the forms of
participation and resistance during different phases of Mexican
state formation. From such research, the question arises: does the
village community constitute a unique level of organization of the
experience of the original peoples of Central Western Mexico? The
chapters address this question in rich and complex ways by first
focusing on the past configurations and changes in lifeways during
the transition from pre-Columbian to Spanish rule in tributary
empires, then examining the long-term postcolonial process of
Mexican Independence that introduced the emerging theme of the
communal sovereignty.
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