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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication 2 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 16 1. Origins 36 2. Migrations 59 3. Building Towns on a Borderland 85 4. Daily Spaces of Sociability 117 5. Mobility and Violence Across the Conurbation 148 6. The Construction of Formal Identities 175 Conclusion 198 Appendix: Characteristics of Nahua, Otomi, and Tarascan Source Communities 206 Glossary 212 Notes on Sources 216 Notes 220 Bibliography 266 Index 282 About the Author 288 Publisher:University of Arizona Press,Published:2018,ISBN:9780816539055,Related ISBN:9780816537655,Language:English,OCLC:1048335701 As Mexico entered the last decade of the sixteenth century, immigration became an important phenomenon in the mining town of San Luis Potosí. New silver mines sparked the need for labor in a region previously lacking a settled population. Drawn by new jobs, thousands of men, women, and children poured into the valley between 1591 and 1630, coming from more than 130 communities across northern Mesoamerica. The Motions Beneath is a social history of the encounter of these thousands of indigenous peoples representing ten linguistic groups. Using baptism and marriage records, Laurent

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Author

Laurent Corbeil

Publisher

The University of Arizona Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816537655

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25