This book sheds new light on key elements in the changing size, structure, and distribution of the Spanish American population during the colonial period, giving information on regions and localities that hitherto have lain beyond the frontier of historical knowledge.

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction /DAVID J. ROBINSON -- 1 Population Reporting Systems: An Eighteenth-Century Paradigm of Spanish Imperial Organization /JOHN V. LOMBARDI -- 2 Census Enumeration in Late Seventeenth-Century Alto Peru: The Numeraci6n General of 1683-1684 /BRIAN M. EVANS -- 3 Colonial Censuses and Tributary Lists of the Sabana de Bogota Chibcha: Sources and Issues /JUAN VILLAMARIN and JUDITH VILLAMARIN -- 4 The Ecology of Race and Class in Late Colonial Oaxaca /JOHN K. CHANCE -- 5 Marriage Patterns and Regional Interaction in Late Colonial Nueva Galicia /LINDA L. GREENOW -- 6 Indian Migration in Eighteenth-Century Yucatan: The Open Nature of the Closed Corporate Community /DAVID J. ROBINSON -- 7 Population Change in the Quinizilapa Valley, Guatemala, 1530-1770 /CHRISTOPHER LUTZ -- 8 The Historical Demography of the Cuchumatan Highlands of Guatemala, 1500-1821 /W. GEORGE LOVELL -- 9 Demographic Catastrophe in Sixteenth- Century Honduras /LINDA A. NEWSON -- 10 Eighteenth-Century Population Change in Andean Peru: The Parish of Yanque /N. DAVID COOK -- Index