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Journal Article
Macehuales and the Corporate Solution: Colonial Secessions in Nahua Central Mexico
2005
Overview
This investigation of the legal separation, or 'secession,'of indigenous subject villages from municipal governments in the Tepeaca district of Puebla, Mexico finds that early colonial (1521–1650) and late colonial (1651–1821) cases differed in their litigation and consequences. Early Spanish officials decided cases based predominantly on pre-Hispanic tradition, only permitting separations that preserved older indigenous social units. Bourbon officials of the late era, in contrast, enabled an entirely new type of pueblo to develop. Indigenous commoners (macehuales) used secessions to rupture relations with indigenous nobles (caciques) and local Spanish agriculturalists. The corporate organization of new pueblos in Puebla was without pre-Hispanic precedent.
En este artículo, investigo la separación legal, o \"secesión\", de sujetos indígenas de sus municipios en el distrito de Tepeaca, Puebla, en México. Ahí, los trámites coloniales tempranos (1521–1650) contrastaban con los trámites coloniales tardíos (1651–1821) tanto en su litigio como en sus consecuencias. Los funcionarios españoles del primer período resolvían los casos basándose sobre todo en la tradición prehispánica, y permitiendo tan sólo separaciones que preservaban las entidades sociales indígenas previamente existentes. En contraste, los funcionarios borbones permitían el desarollo de un nuevo tipo de pueblo. Los macehuales hacían uso del proceso de secesión para romper sus relaciones con caciques y agricultores españoles locales. La organización corporativa de los pueblos nuevos en Puebla no tuvo precedente en la era prehispánica.
