Publications
newest book
Cacicas
The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 (editor, with Sara V. Guengerich). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within.
Publications
newest book
Cacicas
The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 (editor, with Sara V. Guengerich). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within.
Other Books
City Indians in Spain’s American Empire
Co-Edited with Mark Lentz & Dana Velasco Murillo
This volume, the first of its genre in English, brings together the pioneering work of scholars of urban Indians of colonial Latin America. An important, but understudied segment of colonial society, urban Indians composed a majority of the population of Spanish America’s most important cities.
Book Chapters
“Doña Marcela and the Cacicas of Bourbon Mexico City: Family, Community, and Indigenous Rule.”
In Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825, edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich, 88-110. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
“Illicit Relations in a Multi-ethnic City: Emotions, Fidelity, and Economic Obligations in Colonial Mexico.”
In Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Intimate Relationships: Approaches from the History of Emotion, edited by Katie Barclay, Jeffrey Meek, and Andrea Thomson, 48-65. New York: Routledge, 2019.
“Culture in Possessing: Land and Legal Practices among the Natives of Eighteenth-Century Mexico City.”
In City Indians in Spain’s American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica & Andean South America, edited by Dana Velasco Murillo, Mark Lentz, and Margarita R. Ochoa, 199-220. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012.
“‘Por faltar a sus obligaciones’: Matrimonio, género y autoridad entre la población indígena de la ciudad de México colonial, siglos XVIII y XIX.”
In Los Indios y las ciudades de Nueva España, edited by Felipe Castro Gutiérrez, 351-70. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2010.