Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810
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Weathering the Bust: Stability and Solidarity in Community Weathering the Bust: Stability and Solidarity in Community
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Persistence in Diversity: Indigenous Population Growth and Production Upsurge Persistence in Diversity: Indigenous Population Growth and Production Upsurge
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Civic Challenges and Community Responses Civic Challenges and Community Responses
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Weathering the Boom: Fluent Vecinos Weathering the Boom: Fluent Vecinos
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4 Indios and Vecinos: The Maturation of Urban Indigenous Society, 1655–1739
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Published:22 June 2016
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Abstract
This chapter examines the maturation of urban indigenous society in Zacatecas, both at the community and individual level, in the midcolonial period. During this period, revitalized silver production and markets, and growing populations of non-Indians, drew native peoples further into the money-economy and into greater interactions with ethnically diverse producers and consumers. Yet indigenous societies survived and flourished within these social and demographic changes because of the stability of native institutions and communities, and native vecinos who retained their associations with the indigenous world even as they acquired the skills and fluency to succeed in the Spanish urban environment. Permanent residents and incoming immigrants created a critical population mass that facilitated continued indigenous social and kinship networks. By the early eighteenth century, native peoples had developed the practices and institutions they needed to survive and prosper as a community and ethnic group in the city.
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