Tarasc nobility: political power and conflicts in the colonial Michoacan

In this work are observed the conditions that caused the introduction of the institutions of indigenous government, the sprouting of the new political actors and the displacement of the inheriting nobility of the governing lineages at the pre-Hispanic time. Some cases in that appear are the new forms of performance in defense of the rights that the spanish legislation allowed to the new indigenous vassals and the speeches and arguments that the political actors will use to obtain to their privileges and rights.