Hijos del Pueblo : : Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850 / / Deborah E. Kanter.

The everyday lives of indigenous and Spanish families in the countryside, a previously under-explored segment of Mexican cultural history, are now illuminated through the vivid narratives presented in Hijos del Pueblo ("offspring of the village"). Drawing on neglected civil and criminal ju...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (165 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. “Like Three Feet in One Shoe”. The Toluca Region, 1730–1821
  • 2. Hijos del Pueblo. The Limits of Community
  • 3. “In Compliance with Marital Obligations” Women, Men, and Married Life
  • 4. “Not in the Street” Households and the Meanings of Kinship
  • 5. Scandalous Men and Intrepid Women
  • 6. Neither Alone nor Free. Women in Depósito
  • 7. From Fathers to Stepfathers. Life after Independence
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index