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Tres siglos de la dominacin espaola en Yucatn o sea historia de esta provincia. I &II by Fray
Diego Lopez de CogolludoReview by: Grant D. JonesAmerican Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 75, No. 6 (Dec., 1973), pp. 1806-1808Published by: Wileyon behalf of the American Anthropological AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/673626.
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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
[75,1973]
nature
and
functioning
of
kinship.
The last
chapter,
translatable s Factors
which
influ-
ence
Tarahumara
social
organization,
is
unusual in that
it
discusses
not
only
the
structure
and functions
of
such core
Tara-
humarasocial featuresas the tesgiiinada,but
their
dysfunctions
and social
costs
as well.
This
has been
a
generally
unorthodox
pro-
cedure
in
anthropology,
ending
as
it
does
to
invite
charges
of
ethnocentrism.
Kennedy
demonstrates
(as
did
Jules
Henry nearly
a
decade
ago)
that it
can
be done at a
high
level of
analytical
competence.
The
study
is
particularly
appropriate,
focusing
as
it does
on the
second
largest
indigenous language
group
north of
Middle
America. Previously available major works
(Lumholtz
1902;
Bennett and
Zingg
1935;
Pennington
1963)
have
been
concerned
primarily
with
description,
in
contrast with
theoretical
analysis,
and
with
relatively
Christianized
Tarahumara.
Thus,
an
impor-
tant
gap
has been
filled.
Those who
have worked
in
the
Tara-
humaraarea
will
appreciate
the
frustrations
of
traveling
between
isolated
ranchos
and
even
more
the
problems
of
carrying
on
effective fieldworkamong people who must
be
among
the
world's
least
approachable
by
outsiders. The author's careful
analysis
of
the
dynamic
interrelationsbetween
environ-
ment and social
organization
sheds
much
light
on
several
mportant questions, among
them the often-remarked-on
ractice
where-
by
Tarahumara
individuals and
families
remain
n
isolation
for
more
or
less
extended
periods.
This
behavior has
given
rise
to
speculative
interpretation ranging
from
the
uninformed
to the
fantastic,
and
Kennedy
appropriately
shows that Tarahumaradis-
persal
derives
not
from
some
special
instinct
or from a
poetical preference
for
solitude,
but from realistic
decision
making
by
a
group
of
Homo
sapiens
who
know
their land
better than
anyone
else.
Possibly
the
most
important point
made
in
the book is that
we must continue to resist
simplistic
causal
explanations.
he
very
del-
icate,
complex,
inter-influencing
elationsbe-
tween the
Tarahumara
nd their
habitat and
theanalysismadeavailablenInapuchi emind
us not
only
that old-fashioned
rude
determin-
ism is
out but that
subsequent hedging
and
evasive
compromises
are
no
more
acceptable
today.
We
know
enough
to do better
andKen-
nedy
is
among
those who have.
Finally,
the
reviewer
applauds
the
fact
that
a book
representing
research
accom-
plished
in
Mexico
involving
a
target
popula-
tion who are citizens of that countryshould
have
been
published
in
Mexico's
rather
han
the
author'snational
anguage.
References
Cited
Bennett,
Wendell
C.,
and
Robert
M.
Zingg
1935 The Tarahumara:An Indian
Tribe
of Northern
Mexico.
Chicago:
Univer-
sity
of
Chicago
Press.
Henry,
Jules
1963 Culture
Against
Man.
New York:
Random
House.
Lumholtz,Carl
1902 Unknown
Mexico.
New
York.
Pennington,
Campbell
W.
1963
The Tarahumarof
Mexico. Salt
Lake
City: University
of Utah
Press.
Tres
siglos
de
la
dominaci6n
espaftola
en
Yucatan
o
sea historiade
esta
provincia.
I
&
II.
FRAY DIEGO
LOPEZ DE
COGOLLUDO.Foreword
by
Ferdinand
Anders. Preface
by
editor
of
1845
edi-
tion.
Graz,
Austria:AkademischeDruck-
u.
Verlagsanstalt,
1971.
viii
+
iv
+
717
pp.,
frontispiece,
illustrations,
4
appen-
dices,
index.
n.p.
(cloth).
[Original
edi-
tion, 1688,
Madrid.
This edition
facsimile
of
1845
edition
owned
by
Walter
Lehman
and
includes his
marginal
notes. In
2
volumes.]
Reviewed
by
GRANT D. JONES
Hamilton
College
The
reappearance
of
Cogolludo'shistory
is
welcome
news
to
anthropologists
and
historians
currently
engaged
n
research
and
reanalysis
of
Maya-Spanish
elations
during
the
colonial
period
in
Yucatan. This work
has
long
been
a standard
secondary
source
for
historians of
Yucatan, largely
because
Cogolludo
made use
of
numerous
primary
sources
that
were
subsequently
lost. How-
ever, anthropologists
concerned with the
ethnographic
reconstruction
of
preconquest
Maya culture and society have tended to
ignore Cogolludo
for the more
properly
ethnographic
work
of his better known
Franciscan
predecessor, Bishop
Landa. The
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ETHNOLOGY
1807
efforts of
Gibson
(1966),
Murra
1961),
and
Spalding
(1967)
to
reconstruct
processes
of
mutual
adaptation
between Indian and
Spanish
societies
in the
highlands
of
Mexico
and
Peru make us
increasingly
aware
that
this emphasis upon preconquestreconstruc-
tion
represents
but one
problem
for
signi-
ficant research.
We
may
thus
expect
that
the
work
of
Cogolludo
and other
colonial
historians
of
Yucatan
will assume
a more
central
role in
our efforts to
reanalyze
broader
processes
of
sociocultural
change.
As
the editor of
this
1845
edition
points
out, Cogolludo's
bias as a
Franciscan
apolo-
gist
deeply
colors
the
content
of his
work.
Like
most clerics
of
his
time,
Cogolludo
felt
compelled to justify the conquest in religi-
ous
terms.
He
devotes
seemingly
inordinate
space
to the
history
of
Franciscanmissions
in
Yucatan, praises
their
efforts
in
wiping
out
idolatry,
and
offers
little
consolation
to
those
Maya
who
stubbornly
refused to
succumb
to
external
political
and
religious
control.
Fortunately,
his hatred of Indian
idolatry
did
not
seriously
affect the
general
accuracy
of
his
work.
The
two volumes consist
of
twelve
major
libros. Libros
I-III
treat
the
periods
of
discovery and conquest, about 1502 to
1545.
It
is,
as Chamberlain's
history
has
shown
(1948:348),
an
incomplete picture,
failing
to utilize
fully
even the
widely
known
sources
of
the
time.
He
does,
however,
document
the
overwhelming
and
continued
resistance
of the
eastern
Maya
provinces,
citing
their
stubborn
aggression
as
partial
justification
for
the
extreme
subjugation
measures used
by
the
Spanish.
His focus
upon Maya
warfare
provides
one
framework
for the analysis of the dynamics of the
indigenous
political-military
ystem
of
semi-
independent
states
that both
aided and
hindered
the
conquest.
Libro
IV
cites
both
previously published
as
well
as some new
evidence
for
Maya religion, including
a
section on
indigenous
crosses. Libro
V
contains a brief
description
of
the
well
known
Cupul
revolt of
1546-47,
docu-
menting
its
extension
into
the southern
Bacalar
region
and
detailing
subsequent
abortive
attempts
by
missionaries o
convert
and pacify the rebellious Uaymil province.
Following
several case studies
of
conversion
efforts in the
north,
he
quotes
in full
Lopez
Medel's 1552 ordinances
for
governing
the
native
population.
Libro
VI
deals with
detailsof late sixteenth
century
ecclesiastical
history,
including
the
miraculous
origins
of
the
Virgin
of
Izamal;
but
Cogolludo
studi-
ously
avoids
the
details
of
Landa's
dolatry
investigations held in 1562 during the
administration f
Diego Quijada.
Libros
VII-VIII
document
changing
official
policies
toward
governance
of
the
Indian
population,
utilization of
Indian
labor,
and
completion
of the
job
of
con-
version
between about
1570 and
1610. Of
particular
interest
is
evidence for the
con-
tinued
existence of
unconverted
Maya
refuge
zones in the
seventeenth
century
along
the
east
coast
of
Yucatan
(Libro VIII, Chapter
8). Libro IX documents the Fuensilada-
Orbita
visit of
1618
to the
Itza
capital
on
Lake
Peten,
including
details
of
Maya
settle-
ments
in
the
southern
Uaymil
and
Chetumal
provinces.
Libro
X
provides
similardetail on
Fray Delgado's
1621-24
Itzai
entrada under
Mirones,
which
ended in
the
death of
Delgado
and his
companions
and a
wide-
spread
and
protracted
revolt
of the
Maya
of
southern
Yucatan.
Nearly
hidden
by
ec-
clesiastical
detail,
in Libro
XI there is
further
evidence of widespreadseventeenthcentury
rebellion in the Bacalar
region
(Chapters
12-17).
Again
among
details of the lives
of
Franciscans
and
accounts
of
miracles,
Libro
XII
(Chapters
3-7)
describes
a
1646
entrada
to
Nohaa,
the
capital
of an
independent
Chol
Maya
territory
on the
Rio Usumacinta.
The
value of
this work to
anthropologists
lies, then,
in
Cogolludo's
preoccupation
with
the
slow
and
continuous
process
of
political
and
religious
conquest
that
characterized
colonial Yucatan. The constant state of
organized
rebellion
and
resistance,
not
only
of
the
Itza,
but of the entire
southern and
eastern
Maya
sections of
Yucatan,
becomes
pointedly
clear. All such
evidence, including
the vast
primary
sources
gathered
during
he
years
of
Carnegie
supported
archival re-
search,
needs
extensive
reanalysis.
The
orthography
of
this
excellent fac-
simile edition
is
modernized,
but the text
lacks
the
marginal
topical
notes of
the
original
1688
edition
(reprinted
n
Mexico
in
1957 as the fifth edition). Lehman'smar-
ginal
notes are
scanty,
but his
extraction
of
dates from the text
is useful to
readers.
Following
most libros in Volume I there are
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1808
AMERICAN
ANTHROPOLOGIST
[75,1973]
notes
by
the
originaleditor,
including
several
reprints
of
articles
on
various
Maya
subjects
from
nineteenth
century
Yucatecan and
Mexican
journals.
These
appendices
alone
justify
the claim
of
a
history
of
three
centuries n the title of this edition.
References
Cited
Chamberlain,
Robert S.
1948 The
Conquest
and
Colonization
of
Yucatan,
1517-1550.
Carnegie
nstitu-
tion
of
Washington,
Publication
582.
Gibson,
Charles
1966 The
Aztecs
Under
Spanish
Rule: A
History
of the
Indians
of the
Valley
of
Mexico,
1519-1810.
Stanford,
CA:
Stanford
University
Press.
Murra, ohn V.
1961 Social Structural
and
Economic
Themes
in
Andean
Ethnohistory.
Anthropological
Quarterly
34:48-55.
Spalding,
Karen
1967 Indian Rural
Society
in
Colonial
Peru: The
Examples
of the
Huarochiri.
Unpublished
Ph.D.
dissertation,
Uni-
versity
of
California,
Berkeley.
Geograffa EconRmica de Mdxico (Siglo
XVI).
ALEJANDRA MORENO
TOS-
CANO. Mexico: Centro de
Estudios
Hist6ricos,
El
Colegio
de
Mexico,
1968.
177
pp.,
illustrations,
ables,
appendices,
bibliography.
Ps35.00
(paper).
[First
published
n
Paris,1967.]
Reviewed
by
EDWARDB. KURJACK
Western llinois
University
This
work
is an economic
analysis
of
the
Relaciones Geograificasof 1577-86 from
Mexico. The
Relaciones are
reports
describ-
ing
several hundred
communities
in
Latin
America and the
Philippines.
Written
by
Spanish
colonists
and
officials
in
response
to
a
long
questionnaire,
he
reports
treat almost
every
phase
of
life in
Spain's
former
posses-
sions. Moreno
searches
the
reports
for
mention
of
ninety
characteristics such
as
cultivation
of
various
crops,
manufacture
of
handicrafts,
and
the
presence
of
natural
resources.
Fifty-three maps
illustrate the
distribution of these traits. The
study
is
divided
into
two
parts:
(1)
a
spatial analysis
of
characteristics
throughout
sixteenth
century
Mexico,
and
(2)
a detailed examina-
tion of
characteristics rom
a
smaller
area,
Yucatan. The
importance
of the
data
in
the
Relaciones is underscored
by
the
recently
published
Handbook
of
Middle
American
Indians,
Volume
12: Guide to
Ethnohistori-
cal Sources, Part One, which is largely
concerned
with these
reports.
Moreno's
study supplements
the
handbook
volume;
as
a
geographical
atalog
of the
subject
matter
in
the
Relaciones,
it is a
very
useful
reference
on
Colonial Mesoamerica-
especially
Yucatan.
The
analysis proceeds by arranging
one
hundred
typical
communities
in
a
typologi-
cal series based
on
shared
characteristics.
Moreno
divides the
communities
into two
categories: (1) those native communities
where
change
due to
culture
contact
was
prominent,
and
(2)
those new
Spanish
settlements
or
marginal
ndian
communities
where
such acculturationwas at a
minimum.
The first
category
is
further
subdivided
by
ecological
zones defined
by
altitude. The
second includes
both
towns created
by
the
Spaniards
for
mining
or other
special
purposes
and Indian communities isolated
from
frequent
Spanish
contact. Most
Indian
settlements
in
Yucatan,
situated
away
from
the towns of the few Spanishcolonists in the
area,
are
part
of
this last
grouping.
The
Relaciones
from
Yucatanare unusual
because
they
were
compiled
by
encom-
enderos
instead of
crown
officials. The
encomenderos
were
conquerors
who had
been
given
temporary
rights
to
collect
tribute from
certain Indian
communities.
Through
the sixteenth
century,
the en-
comenderos
lobbied to
protect
their
hold-
ings
from
the
encroachment
of
missionaries,
who viewed the encomienda system as
unjust,
and to transform
their
temporary
grants
into
permanent
feudal
fiefs. The
Relaciones
of
the Yucatecan
encomenderos
heavily
reflect their
political
motivations.
Without
warning
the
reader of
these
biases,
Moreno
repeats
an
argument
ad-
vanced as a
political
attack
on
the
militant
friars:
according
to the
reports
of
the
encomenderos,
the
Crown
policy
of
re-
settling
Indians
in
large
communities to
facilitate their
religious
conversion
was the
principal
causeof a heavy populationdecline
during
the
sixteenth
century.
This
argument
has been too
readily accepted by
modern
scholars as evidencefor the
adaptive
value
of
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