Allende Mesoamérica. El sistema de cargos en el noroeste de México

Abstract

Hugo López article takes us beyond the border of Mesoamérica, the cultural area where the sistema de cargos is usually found and introduces in his setting a new actor in historical drama of this: The Jesuits who dominated the spiritual conquest ofthe región, establishing their missions in areas outside the solid peasant mesoamerican cultures. Here the local indigenous govemment has been the outcome of a historical process characterized by a dialectical interaction between the control exercised through the jesuit missions and the frequent native rebellions.