Description
In this book, Susan Kellogg explains how Spanish law served as an instrument of cultural transformation and adaptation in the lives of Nahuatl-speaking peoples during the years 1500-1700--the first two centuries of colonial rule. She shows that law had an impact on numerous aspects of daily life, especially gender relations, patterns of property ownership and transmission, and family and kinship organization.
Based on a wide array of local-level Spanish and Nahuatl documentation and an intensive analysis of seventy-three lawsuits over property involving Indians residing in colonial Mexico City (Tenochtitl n), this work reveals how legal documentation offers important clues to attitudes and perceptions.
Author: Susan Kellogg
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.64w x 0.83d
ISBN13: 9780806136851
ISBN10: 0806136855
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America | Mexico
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Law | Legal History