Casa de la Cacica
The Casa de la Cacica is a 16th-century Mixtec building complex in Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico.
| Casa de la Cacica | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Town or city | Teposcolula, Oaxaca |
| Country | 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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