Casa de la Cacica
| Casa de la Cacica | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Town or city | Teposcolula, Oaxaca |
| Country | Mexico |
The Casa de la Cacica is a 16th-century Mixtec building complex in Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Its current name, meaning "house of the cacica" in Spanish, may refer to Doña Catalina de Peralta who took possession of the home in 1569.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Terraciano (2001): p. 160.
References
- Kiracofe, James B. (1995). "Architectural Fusion and Indigenous Ideology in Early Colonial Teposcolula: The Casa de la Cacica: A Building at the Edge of Oblivion" (PDF). Anales de Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas 17 (66): 45–84.
- Terraciano, Kevin (2001). The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3756-8. OCLC 45861953.
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