Cacicas : the indigenous women leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 /
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: cacicas in the early Spanish Caribbean / Ida Altman
- Introduction / Sara Vicuña Guengerich and Margarita R. Ochoa
- Part I: North and Central America. The cacicas of Teotihuacan: early colonial female power and wealth / Bradley Benton
- Founding mothers: the tapias of QuereÌ?taro, 1571-1663 / Peter B. Villella
- Doña Marcela and the cacicas of bourbon Mexico City: family, community, and indigenous rule / Margarita R. Ochoa
- Sinking fortunes: two female caciques and an ex-gobernadora in the kingdom of Guatemala, 1700-1821 / Catherine Komisaruk
- Part II: South America. "Women were governing before the Spanish entered in this kingdom": the institutionalization of the cacica from the north coast of Peru / Karen B. Graubart
- Public voice and political authority: native female leadership in the sixteenth-century northern Andes / Chantal Caillavet
- Cacicas, land, and litigation in seventeenth-century Chincha, Peru / Liliana PeÌ?rez Miguel and Renzo Honores
- A royalist cacica: Doña Teresa Choquehuanca and the postrebellion natives of the Peruvian highlands / Sara Vicuña Guengerich
- Peacemaker cacicas in the RiÌ?o de la Plata southern frontier / Florencia Roulet
- Conclusion: to be cacica in colonial times--the rhetoric of "Pureza" / MoÌ?nica DiÌ?az
- Appendix: Cacicas in Nicaragua, 1522-1550 / Patrick S. Werner