Cultural Politics in Colonial TehuantepecThis book is a historical and archeological examination of the Isthmus Zapotec state, which was established at Tehuantepec in late prehispanic times through a campaign of conquest and colonization, and the responses that its descendant populations made to the complex political, economic, and cultural changes introduced by Spanish colonialism. Although the modern day Isthmus Zapotecs are renowned in Mexico and among Latin Americanists for their vibrant