In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

191 Notes Introduction 1. See Libro que contiene los patronatos, 1769, AMP, LV 20. 2. José Antonio de Areche to the cabildo, Mexico City, 28 September 1768, AMP, RC 10, 358v. 3. See Libro que contiene los patronatos, 1769, AMP, LV 20. 4. Libro que contiene los patronatos, 1769, AMP, LV 20, 31v-123v. 5. See Libro que contiene los patronatos, 1769, AMP, LV 20 and Libro que comprende específicas noticias de los patronatos, 1773, AMP, LV 9. 6. Libro que comprende específicas noticias de los patronatos, 1773, AMP, LV 9, 349v-345r. 7. Actas, 16 January 1773, AMP-BNAH, AC 53, 13v-14r; Actas, 16 January 1776, AMP-BNAH, AC 55, 14v. 8. Actas, 30 September 1773, AMP-BNAH, AC 53, 113v. 9. Actas, 20 July 1776, AMP-BNAH, AC 55, 187r-187v. 10. Edward Muir, Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 230. 11. Clifford Geertz, Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1980), 120, 122. 12. See, for example, Alejandro Cañeque, The King´s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Seventeenth-Century New Spain (New York: Routledge , 2004), and Alejandra Osorio, Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Peru’s South Sea Metropolis (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). 13. Linda A. Curcio-Nagy, The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004). Other scholars have examined the socially integrative role of public ritual in colonial Mexico and its enhancement of political legitimacy. See Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru, “Las fiestas novohispanas: espectáculo y ejemplo,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 9:1 (winter 1993), 19–45, and Clara García Ayluardo, “A World of Images: Cult, Ritual, and Society in Colonial Mexico City,” in Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public 192 · Notes to Pages xx  –  xxiii Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico, ed. William H. Beezley, Cheryl English Martin, and William E. French (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1994), 77–93. 14. Recently, Alan Knight has questioned the usefulness of “political culture,” arguing that for the concept to have value there must be evidence of durability and salience. While cognizant of this criticism, I have selected to use the term to refer to the values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of municipal councilmen regarding politics , given that there is ample evidence that understandings were shared by regidores and that these largely endured, although not without some modification. Alan Knight, “Is Political Culture Good to Think?” in Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750–1950, ed. Nils Jocobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), 25–57. 15. Randal Johnson, “Bourdieu on Art, Literature, and Culture,” in The Field of Cultural Production, by Pierre Bourdieu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), 5. 16. Actas de Cabildo Eclesiástico, 7 January 1771, ACP, ACE 39, 197r–120v. 17. Libro que contiene todas las cartas [y] órdenes que a esta Nobilísima Ciudad ha conferido el Ilustrísimo Señor Don José de Gálvez, AMP, LV 18. 18. Encomiendas were grants of Indians offered to ex-conquistadors and other wellconnected Spaniards. Indigenous communities provided tribute in the form of goods and labor in exchange for Christian instruction. François Chevalier, Significación social de la fundación de la Puebla de los Ángeles, trans. E. San Martín (1947; Reprint Puebla: Centro de Estudios Históricos de Puebla, 1957); Julia Hirschberg, “La fundaci ón de Puebla de los Ángeles: Mito y realidad,” Historia Mexicana 28:2 (October– December 1978), 185–223; Fausto Marín Tamayo, La división racial en Puebla de los Ángeles bajo el régimen colonial (Puebla: Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1960). 19. Guy Thomson, Puebla de los Angeles: Industry and Society in a Mexican City, 1700–1850 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989), xix–xx. 20. The Spanish cabildo minutes make occasional reference to the city’s indigenous governors and principales, but unfortunately, the organization’s cabildo minutes , correspondence, and tribute rosters have yet to be recovered. Recently, Lidia E. Gómez García has shown how Puebla de los Ángeles’ indigenous cabildo also included fiscales, officials who exercised both secular and religious responsibilities. These individuals policed against heterodoxy, helped to raise money for the maintenance of holy images, and organized religious processions. See “Las fiscalías de la ciudad de los Ángeles, Siglo XVII,” in Los indios y las ciudades de Nueva España, ed. Felipe Castro Gutiérrez (Mexico City: Universidad...

Share