Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850
by
Deborah E. Kanter
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
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...