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Archaeology, History, and Anthropology in the Mixteca-Puebla Region of Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Shirley Gorenstein
Shirley Gorenstein*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
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Abstract

Cultural change from the prehistoric to the protohistoric period is seen as a subject of anthropological study in which archaeological and ethnohistorical data are complementary sources. It is suggested that an interpretation of the effect of the postconquest economic and political innovations in Tepexi, a Mixteca-Puebla community in Mexico, can be made only after an examination of the condition of the preconquest economic and political systems. Tepexi was economically overburdened in preconquest times as a result of Aztec tribute demands, and the introduction of the silk industry by the Spaniards may have been responsible for sustaining the failing community.

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American Antiquity , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 1971 , pp. 335 - 343
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1971

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