Considerations on the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Mexicaneros, Tequales, Coras, Huicholes, and Caxcanes of Nayarit, Jalisco and Zacatecas
essay 1985 Weigand, Phil C.

West Mexico PostclassicMiddle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Weigand examines five modern Indian groups (Mexicaneros, Tequales, Coras, Huicholes, and Tepecanos) and one historic Indian group (Caxcanes) of the highland barranca zone of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Zacatecas to discuss their origins and explore the evo...

The political organization of the trans-Tarascan zone of western Mesoamerica on the eve of Spanish conquest
essay 1993 Weigand, Phil C.

West Mexico PostclassicMiddle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Weigand discusses the political organization of west Mexico shortly before the Spanish conquest. To do this he first discusses some of the inherent difficulties of using the ethnohistorical data and what he calls the maximalist and minimalist schools...