Caterina Pizzigoni - 'Santitos': Saints and People in the Indigenous Household in Colonial Mexico and Beyond

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Caterina Pizzigoni is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She works on the early modern history of Latin America, specializing in Indigenous populations, sources in Nahuatl, social history, household and material culture. Dr. Pizzigoni has published books and articles on a wide range of topics, including: Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico, with Camilla Townsend (2021); The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800 (2012); Testaments of Toluca (2007).