Description: This volume showcases colonial cacicas as historical subjects who constructed their consciousness around their place, whether symbolic or geographic, and articulated their own unique identities. It expands our understanding of the significant influence these women exerted--within but also well beyond the native communities of Spanish America.
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Sara Vicuña Guengerich is Associate Professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University.
Review Quotes: "This volume provides an exceptionally well-researched foray into the lives, experiences, and writings of cacicas. The volume accomplishes its goal of establishing the field of what might be called cacica studies and lays groundwork for future research. As Mónica Díaz writes in the conclusion, this work is urgent: "The more cases we bring to the light, the sooner our historiographical narratives about Indigenous women will change" (278)." -- Early Modern Women