Hijos del pueblo : gender, family, and community in rural Mexico, 1730-1850 / Deborah E. Kanter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kanter, Deborah Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Toluca de Lerdo Region--Social conditions.

Indians of Mexico.

Kinship--Mexico--Toluca de Lerdo Region.

Kinship.

Sex role--Mexico--Toluca de Lerdo Region.

Sex role.

Families--Mexico--Toluca de Lerdo Region.

Families.

Toluca de Lerdo Region (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Toluca de Lerdo Region (Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 judicial records from the Toluca region, Deborah Kanter revives the voices of native women and men, their Spanish neighbors, muleteers, and hacienda peons to showcase their struggles in an era of crisis and uncertainty (1730-1850). Engaging and meaningful biographies of indigenous villagers, female and male, illustrate that no scholar can understand the history of Mexican communities without taking gender seriously. In legal interactions native plaintiffs and Spanish jurists confronted essential questions of identity and hegemony. At once an insightful consideration of individual experiences and sweeping paternalistic power constructs, Hijos del Pueblo contributes important new findings to the realm of gender studies and the evolution of Latin America.

Contents:

"Like three feet in one shoe" : the Toluca Region, 1730-1821

Hijos del pueblo : the limits of community

"In compliance with marital obligations" : women, men, and married life

"Not in the street" : households and the meanings of kinship

Scandalous men and intrepid women

Neither alone nor free : women in deposito

From fathers to stepfathers : life after independence.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-146) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79388-X

OCLC:

311053825