books (co-authored)
2008 (with Susan Schroeder, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, and Anne Cruz). Chimalpahin's Conquest: An Indigenous Historian's Reading of López de Gómara's Conquest of Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (Under contract).
articles
2008 "Escritura y disención: Resistencia y cosmologías alternas en el México colonial." Revista de Indias (Forthcoming).
2008 (with John Justeson as co-author). "Eclipse records in a corpus of colonial Zapotec 260-day calendars." Ancient Mesoamerica 19 (1): 67-81. download pdf
2006 "The Passion According to the Wooden Drum: The Christian Appropriation of a Zapotec Ritual Genre in New Spain." The Americas 62 (3): 413 - 444. download pdf
2002 "Idolatry as an ontological question: Native consciousness and juridical proof in colonial Mexico." Journal of Early Modern History 6 (2): 114 - 139. download pdf
2000 "Naming the Trinity: From ideologies of translation to dialectics of reception in colonial Nahua texts, 1547 - 1771." Colonial Latin American Review , 9 (1): 21 - 47. download pdf
2000 "De cantares zapotecas a 'libros del demonio': La extirpación de discursos doctrinales híbridos en Villa Alta." Acervos: Boletín de los Archivos y Bibliotecas de Oaxaca , 17: 19 - 27. download pdf
1999 "La idolatría letrada: Un análisis comparativo de textos clandestinos rituales y devocionales en comunidades nahuas y zapotecas, 1613-1654". Historia Mexicana 194, 49 (2): 197-252. download pdf
1999 "Una fuente vaticana inédita sobre la rebelión tzeltal de 1712: La Sucinta relación de fray Gabriel de Artiga al Prior General dominico (1713)". Anuario del Instituto de Estudios Indígenas , Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. download pdf
book chapters
2008 "Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identities in New Spain." In Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America. Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O'Hara, eds. Durham: Duke University Press (Forthcoming).
2008 "En mano de Dios Padre: Autonomía local, resistencia colectiva, y las causas civiles y eclesiásticas contra idolatrías en Oaxaca." In Los tribunales eclesiásticos en México y Perú. Jorge Traslosheros, ed. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa-UNAM (In press). download pdf
2007 (with John Justeson as co-author). "The correlation of the colonial Northern Zapotec calendar with European chronology." In Cultural Astronomy in New World Cosmologies: Essays in Honor of Anthony Aveni, 17-81. Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton, eds. Niwot: University of Colorado Press. download pdf
2007 "Communal defiance, divided allegiances: Zapotec responses to idolatry extirpation campaigns, 1679 - 1704." In Religion in New Spain, 46-62. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. download pdf
2006 "Autonomy, Honor, and the Ancestors: Confrontations over Local Devotions in Colonial Oaxaca." In Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, 119 - 144. Martin Nesvig, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. download pdf
2005 "Ciclos punitivos, economías del castigo, y estrategias indígenas ante la extirpación de idolatrías en Oaxaca y México." In Nuevas perspectivas sobre el castigo de la heterodoxia en la Nueva España, 37 - 56. Ana de Zaballa, ed. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco. download pdf
2004 "Colonial evangelization and native resistance: The interplay of native political autonomy and ritual practices in Villa Alta, 1700-1704." In Interpreting Colonialism, 209 - 230. Byron Wells & Philip Stewart, eds. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. download pdf
2002 "Letras clandestinas, textos tolerados: los intelectuales locales nahuas y zapotecos en el siglo XVII." In Élites intelectuales y modelos colectivos en el mundo ibérico, siglos XVI - XIX, 59 - 82. Jesús Bustamante and Mónica Quijada, eds. Madrid: C.S.I.C. download pdf