Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810

In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production...
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Author: Dana Velasco Murillo
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Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810 by Velasco Murillo, Dana

Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810

€62,38

Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810

€62,38
Author: Dana Velasco Murillo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns, the need for labor, raw materials, resources, and foodstuffs brought together an array of different ethnic and social groups--Spaniards, Indians, Africans, and ethnically mixed individuals or castas. On the northern edge of the empire, 350 miles from Mexico City, sprung up Zacatecas, a silver-mining town that would grow in prominence to become the Second City of New Spain.

Urban Indians in a Silver City illuminates the social footprint of colonial Mexico's silver mining district. It reveals the men, women, children, and families that shaped indigenous society and shifts the view of indigenous peoples from mere laborers to settlers and vecinos (municipal residents). Dana Velasco Murillo shows how native peoples exploited the urban milieu to create multiple statuses and identities that allowed them to live in Zacatecas as both Indians and vecinos. In reconsidering traditional paradigms about ethnicity and identity among the urban Indian population, she raises larger questions about the nature and rate of cultural change in the Mexican north.



Author: Dana Velasco Murillo
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/22/2016
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780804796118


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2017

About the Author
Dana Velasco Murillo is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

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