Includes bibliographical references and index

The last cacique : the archival landscapes of Kah, Common, and Pueblo -- King of the forest : civilization, savagery, and the annals of history -- Hunucm�'s Zapata : objects of insurgency and auguries of liberation -- The redemption : subjects of revolution and objects of governance -- The general and the beast : murder, martyrdom, and the bones of el Pueblo -- The president's dead hand : surveys, maps, and the measure of el Pueblo - - The war of the eggs : tragedy, redemption, and the carnivalesque -- By the Virgin's grace : the archival landscapes of miracle, money, and memory -- Poet, prophet, and politician : forgetting and remembering Hunucm�