Incumbents and Challengers: Indigenous Politics and the Adoption of Spanish Material Culture in Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico

Historical Archaeology - Tập 44 Số 2 - Trang 51-71 - 2010
Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría1
1Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, USA

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