Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Tables, and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. La ropa de la tierra: Indigenous Women and the Tributary Economy of Early Colonial Peru 27
7. 2. “With Our Labor and Sweat”: Creating the Urban Economy 60
8. 3. “Because I am a woman and very old . . .”: Indigenous Women’s Testaments as Legal Strategies 95
9. 4. Dressing Like an Indian: Producing Ethnicity in Urban Peru 121
10. 5. “Use and Custom”: Cacicas and the Invention of Political Tradition in Colonial Peru 158
11. Conclusion: Gender, Ethnicity, and Other Identities in Early Colonial Peru 186
12. Notes 197
13. Bibliography 223
14. Index 237