With Our Labor and Sweat : Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700 / Karen B. Graubart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graubart, Karen B., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 4 tables, 5 figures, 1 map

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Based upon substantial new research, this book investigates the heterogeneity of experiences of rural and urban indigenous women in Peru during the first two centuries of Spanish colonization. Using wills, as well as other notarial and legal documents, it discusses changes in their working lives and how their identity as "Indians" as well as women was shaped in a multicultural society. From their utilization of colonial law to seek redress, to their creation of urban dress styles that reflected their new positions as consumers and as producers under Spanish rule, the early colonial period witnessed a dramatic upheaval in indigenous women's lives. By analyzing the migration from rural to urban areas, interaction with Spanish as well as African society, and the lives of both plebeians and elites, the author provides a thorough picture of this transformational period.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps, Tables, and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. La ropa de la tierra: Indigenous Women and the Tributary Economy of Early Colonial Peru

2. “With Our Labor and Sweat”: Creating the Urban Economy

3. “Because I am a woman and very old . . .”: Indigenous Women’s Testaments as Legal Strategies

4. Dressing Like an Indian: Producing Ethnicity in Urban Peru

5. “Use and Custom”: Cacicas and the Invention of Political Tradition in Colonial Peru

Conclusion: Gender, Ethnicity, and Other Identities in Early Colonial Peru

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2576-1

OCLC:

1294425932