Drawing on settler colonial grammar of place , the colonial practice of naming and renaming Native land through mapmaking processes that historically deny, erase, and homogenize Indigenous communities, this essay argues that Indigenous Oaxacans disrupt settler colonial renaming of land b...
This article shows how European cattle breeding made its way into the Valley of Oaxaca and the early conflicts this new productive activity triggered, both because of the damage caused by the animals and the new ways of legitimizing land tenure. By analyzing trials, l...