INDIANS INTO MEXICANS : HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN A MEXICAN TOWN / David Frye

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Many Mexicos, Many Mexquitics
	Becoming the Other
	Cultures and Histories
	Many Mexicos, Many Mexquitics
2. A World in Construction
	The House as a Work in Progress
	The Spirit of the Jacal
	Life in the "Informal Economy"
	Living from Day to Day
	Amway de M‚xico, S.A. de C.V.
	The Strata of Mexquitic
	A World in Construction
3. Founding Mexquitic
	The Early History: Pueblo y Frontera
	Another History: The Bellringer's Tale
	The Devil in the Shape of an Indian
	Contested Tales
4. Colonial Politics: The Rep£blica of Mexquitic
	"...That He Look on Us as a Father..."
	The Governor's Demise
5. People and Priest
	"Fatal and Pernicious Consequences" 
	"Industrious, Hardworking, and Ingenious Indians" 
	"Restless and Turbulent Indians"
	"...and the Pueblo Will Have Respect"
	"...Very Difficult or Almost Impossible to Prove" 
	The Priest and Religion Today 
6. Modern Politics: Mexquitic and the Nation
	Don Lupe
	Cabbages and Kings
	Caciques and Agraristas
	The Rule of Pilar Garc¡a
	The Violent Tenor of Life
	Local Politics and the State
7. Land, History, and Identity
	Expansion and Early Conflicts
	Heightened Conflict, Renewed Expansion
	Walls
	Patricio Jim‚nez 
	An Agrarian Bricolage
	Land and Identity: El Pueblo Escogido 
Notes
Maps
1. The municipality of Mexquitic, showing places mentioned 
in text 
2. Haciendas and pueblos, central San Luis Potos¡
3. The early phases of land tenure 
4. The late hacienda regime 
5. The haciendas dismantled 
Appendices
	A. Population of Mexquitic
	B. Will of Sebastian Martin, 1714
	C. Merchant's account, Mexquitic, 1798
	D. Petition by three widows of Mexquitic, 1764
	E. Petition by a friar, 1798
Bibliography
	Primary Sources
	References Cited