Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

Kenneth J. Andrien is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair Emeritus in the History Department at Southern Methodist University, USA. He is the author and editor of numerous articles and nine books.Cameron D. Jones is a Lecturer at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA. He is an award-winning author who has published numerous books, chapters, and articles on various regions of Latin America. He is working on a digital humanities project, AfricanCalifornios.org, a repository for the lives and family connections of people of African descent in Spanish and Mexican California, which received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Cameron D. Jones)Part I: Transitions from an Indigenous to a Colonial Social Order, 1450–16001. Quecholcohuatzin: The Politics of Being a Drummer in the Aztec Empire (Peter Bjorndahl Sorensen)2. Gaspar Antonio Chi: Bridging the Conquest of Yucatán (Matthew Restall)3. Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru (Susan E. Ramírez)4. Cacique don Enrique of Hispaniola: The First Maroon Rebellion in the Americas (Robert C. Schwaller)5. Pablos Juan: The Curious Tale of a Portuguese Soldier in Sixteenth Century St. Augustine, Florida (J. Michael Francis)6. Domingos Fernandes Nobre: “Tomacauna,” a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil (Alida C. Metcalf)Part II: The Mature Colonial Order, 1600–17407. The Mysterious Catalina: “Indian” or “Spaniard”? (Noble David Cook)8. Ursula de Jesús: A Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic (Nancy E. van Deusen)9. Agustina Ruiz: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico (Zeb Tortorici)10. Zumbi of Palmares: Challenging the Portuguese Colonial Order (Mary Karasch)11. Ana de Vega: Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexican Healer (Joan Bristol)Part III: Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion, 1740–182512. Píritu Franciscan Friar Pedro Cordero: Missionary, Linguist, and Indigenous Friend? (Kimberly J. Morse)13. Manuel Joaquín Uriarte: A Jesuit Missionary in Amazonia His Diary, Letters, and Approach to Evangelization (1750–67) (Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho)14. Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness (Ann Twinam)15. Don Manuel Cipriano de Melo: The Trans-Imperial Career of a Luso-Spaniard (Fabrício Prado)16. Agustín Agualongo and the Royalist Cause in the Wars of Independence (Marcela Echeverri)17. Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil (Camilla Townsend)IndexAbout the Editor and Contributors

This volume is essential for professors and students exploring people’s lives in courses on colonial Latin America, while also allowing them to practice the historian’s craft using the region’s rich primary sources. While maintaining the classic essays, this new edition delves even further before Europeans arrived in the Americas, examines the limits of empire through frontier missions, and highlights the trans-imperial and trans-Atlantic aspects of colonial Latin American life.