New World, First Nations : Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under Colonial Rule Book

	Introduction : First Nations between conquest and independence	1
1	Writing two cultures : the meaning of "Amoxtli" (book) in Nahua New Spain	13
2	The cosmological bases of local power in the Andes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	36
3	Las mercedes que pedia para su salida : the Vilcabamba Inca and the Spanish state, 1539-1572	57
4	Some avatars of death in New Spain's southeast	92
5	Beyond the Indian/Ladino dichotomy : shifting identities in colonial and contemporary Chiapas, Mexico	115
6	Indigenous production and consumption of cotton in eighteenth-century Chiapas : re-evaluating the coercive practices of the Reparto de Efectos	129
7	Recent studies on gender relations in colonial native Andean history	144
8	A liminal nobility : the Incas in the middle ground of late colonial Peru	169
9	A historical and cultural perspective on the 1814 revolution in Cuzco	196
10	A nationalist movement without nationalism : the limits of imagined community in Mexico, 1810-1821	218