All Stories

  1. “Come back to Earth!”

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    David Tavárez

  2. Indigenous Legal Cultures and Colonial Dispossession - Since Time Immemorial. Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico. By Yanna Yannakakis. Durham: Duke University Press. 2023. Pp. xviii, 318. $28.95 paper.

    Article • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, July 2024, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  3. Rethinking Zapotec Time Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico

    Article • March 2022, University of Texas Press

    David Tavárez

  4. Aristotelian Politics among the Aztecs

    Article • September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    David Tavárez

  5. The Spiritual Conquest of Latin America

    Article • July 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Tavárez

  6. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

    Article • Hispanic American Historical Review, November 2018, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  7. Rajeshwari Dutt. Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán.

    Article • The American Historical Review, October 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Tavárez

  8. Words & Worlds Turned Around, Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America. Edited by David Tavárez with a forward by William B. Taylor. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-60732-683-0

    Article • International Journal of Latin American Religions, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Tavárez

  9. David Tavárez, editor. Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America.

    Article • The American Historical Review, April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Tavárez

  10. Reframing Idolatry in Zapotec: Dominican Translations of the Christian Doctrine in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca

    Article • October 2017, De Gruyter

    David Tavárez

  11. Altera Roma: Art and Empire from Mérida to Mexico. JOHN M. D. POHL and CLAIRE L. LYONS , editors. 2016. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, UCLA, Los Angeles. xxvi + 359 pp., 125 figures, 1 table. $75.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-938770-01-2

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  12. Conclusions

    Article • January 2017, University Press of Colorado

    David Tavárez

  13. Glossary

    Article • January 2017, University Press of Colorado

    David Tavárez

  14. Performing the Zaachila Word: The Dominican Invention of Zapotec Christianity

    Article • January 2017, University Press of Colorado

    David Tavárez

  15. Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America

    Article • January 2017, University Press of Colorado

    David Tavárez

  16. Indigenous Christianity: Libana book review

    Article • Ethnohistory, October 2016, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  17. Translated Christianities: Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts

    Article • Hispanic American Historical Review, October 2015, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  18. Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes

    Article • Colonial Latin American Review, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    David Tavárez

  19. Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca Valley Communities in History by Scott Cook.

    Article • American Anthropologist, February 2015, Wiley

    David Tavárez

  20. Presentación. La etnohistoria en América: crónica de una disciplina bastarda

    Article • Desacatos Revista de Ciencias Sociales, November 2014, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social

    David Tavárez

  21. Nahua Intellectuals, Franciscan Scholars, and the Devotio Moderna in Colonial Mexico

    Article • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, October 2013, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  22. A Banned Sixteenth-Century Biblical Text in Nahuatl: The Proverbs of Solomon

    Article • Ethnohistory, October 2013, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  23. IDA ALTMAN. The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550.

    Article • The American Historical Review, October 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Tavárez

  24. Historical Linguistics

    Article • August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Tavárez

  25. Martin Austin Nesvig, ed. Forgotten Franciscans: Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy . Latin American Originals. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. x + 118 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978–0–2...

    Article • Renaissance Quarterly, March 2013, University of Chicago Press

    David Tavárez

  26. Nahua Intellectuals, Franciscan Scholars, and the Devotio Moderna in Colonial Mexico

    Article • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, January 2013, Project Muse

    David Tavárez

  27. Of Poet Kings and Burning Noblemen: Recent Works on the Ethnohistory and Art History of Tetzcoco, Mexico

    Article • Colonial Latin American Review, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    David Tavárez

  28. Here in this Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley - edited by Townsend, Camilla

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, June 2012, Wiley

    David Tavárez

  29. Nahuatl Theater. Volume 4, Nahua Christianity in Performance

    Article • Ethnohistory, January 2012, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  30. Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico

    Article • Hispanic American Historical Review, January 2012, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  31. The Invisible War

    Article • February 2011, Stanford University Press

    David Tavárez

  32. The Art of Being In-between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca

    Article • Ethnohistory, January 2011, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  33. painted words tavárez

    Article • July 2010, Stanford University Press

    David Tavárez

  34. Chimalpahin's Conquest

    Article • July 2010, Stanford University Press

    David Tavárez

  35. After Monte Alban: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico

    Article • Ethnohistory, July 2010, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  36. Nahuatl Theater. Volume 3. Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation

    Article • Ethnohistory, April 2010, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  37. People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru (review)

    Article • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, January 2010, Project Muse

    David Tavárez

  38. Zapotec Time, Alphabetic Writing, and the Public Sphere

    Article • Ethnohistory, January 2010, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  39. Escritura, espacios sociales y cosmologías indígenas en Nueva España: una aproximación a los calendarios zapotecos

    Article • Revista de Indias, November 2009, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    David Tavárez

  40. Legally Indian

    Article • April 2009, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  41. Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca

    Article • Hispanic American Historical Review, February 2009, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  42. Archivos, narrativas y silencios historiográficos sobre la extirpación de idolatrías en Nueva España

    Article • Anuario de Historia de América Latina, January 2009, Bohlau Verlag

    David Tavárez

  43. Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate by Elizabeth Hill Boone

    Article • American Anthropologist, December 2008, Wiley

    David Tavárez

  44. Nahuatl Theater, Volume 2: Our Lady of Guadalupe.

    Article • Ethnohistory, April 2008, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  45. ECLIPSE RECORDS IN A CORPUS OF COLONIAL ZAPOTEC 260-DAY CALENDARS

    Article • Ancient Mesoamerica, March 2008, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  46. Nahuatl Theater. Volume 1, Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico

    Article • Ethnohistory, October 2006, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  47. Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500--1750:Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500--1750

    Article • American Anthropologist, September 2006, Wiley

    David Tavárez

  48. Jonathan D. Amith, The Möbius Strip: A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. xxi + 661 pp. ISBN: 0-8047-4893-4 (hbk.).

    Article • Itinerario, July 2006, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  49. The Passion According to the Wooden Drum: The Doctrinal Appropriation of a Colonial Zapotec Ritual Genre in New Spain

    Article • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, January 2006, Project Muse

    David Tavárez

  50. El cristianismo en el espejo indigena: Religiosidad en el occidente de la Sierra Gorda, siglo XVIII (review)

    Article • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, January 2006, Project Muse

    David Tavárez

  51. The Passion According to the Wooden Drum: The Christian Appropriation of a Zapotec Ritual Genre in New Spain

    Article • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  52. El cristianismo en el espejo indígena. Religiosidad en el occidente de Sierra Gorda, siglo XVIII. By Gerardo Lara Cisneros. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2002. Pp. 257. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography.

    Article • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  53. Osvaldo F. Pardo, The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004. xii + 25...

    Article • Itinerario, November 2005, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  54. Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico

    Article • Ethnohistory, January 2005, Duke University Press

    David Tavárez

  55. Hilary E. Wyss, Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000 (2003). xiii + 207 pp. ISBN 1-55849-264-X (hbk.); 1-55849-412-X (pbk.).

    Article • Itinerario, November 2004, Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  56. IDOLATRY AS AN ONTOLOGICAL QUESTION: NATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS AND JURIDICAL PROOF IN COLONIAL MEXICO

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, April 2002, Brill

    David Tavárez

  57. Idolatry as an Ontological Question: Native Consciousness and Juridical Proof in Colonial Mexico

    Article • Journal of Early Modern History, January 2002, Brill

    David Tavárez

  58. Naming the Trinity: From Ideologies of Translation to Dialectics of Reception in Colonial Nahua Texts, 1547-1771

    Article • Colonial Latin American Review, June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    David Tavárez

  59. Ritual language

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez

  60. Religion in the Pre-Contact New World: Mesoamerica and the Andes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    David Tavárez