Law And Transformation Of The Aztec Culture

Law And Transformation Of The Aztec Culture

by Susan Kellogg
Law And Transformation Of The Aztec Culture

Law And Transformation Of The Aztec Culture

by Susan Kellogg

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Overview

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 (Tenochtitlán), this work reveals how legal documentation offers important clues to attitudes and perceptions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780806136851
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 09/05/2000
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 803,222
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susan Kellogg is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Houston, Texas. She is coauthor of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life.

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