Indian Women of Early Mexico [Hardcover]

Susan Schroeder (Editor), Stephanie Wood (Editor), Robert Haskett (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest colonial Mexico.

In this volume: "Introduction," Susan Schroeder; "Mexica Women on the Home Front," Louise M. Burkhart; "Aztec Wives," Arthur J. O. Anderson; "Indian-Spanish Marriages in the First Century of the Colony," Pedro Carrasco; "Gender and Social Identity," Rebecca Horn; "From Parallel and Equivalent to Separate but Unequal: Tenochca Mexica Women, 1500-1700," Susan Kellogg; "Activist or Adulteress/ The Life and Struggle of Doña Josefa Mará of Tepoztlan," Robert Haskett; "Matters of Life at Death," Stephanie Wood; "Mixteca Cacicas," Ronald Spores; "Women and Crime in Colonial Oaxaca," Lisa Mary Sousa; "Women, Rebellion, and the Moral Economy of Maya Peasants in Colonial Mexico," Kevin Gosner; "Work, Marriage, and Status: Maya Women of Colonial Yucatan," Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt and Matthew Restall; "Double Jeopardy," Susan M. Deeds; "Women’s Voices from the Frontier," Leslie S. Offutt; "Rethinking Malinche," Frances Karttunen; "Concluding Remarks," Stephanie Wood and Robert Haskett.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stephanie Wood is Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She is coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Robert Haskett is Professor of History at the University of Oregon.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806129700
• ISBN-13: 978-0806129709
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars An exploration of life on the ground after the Conquista, April 29, 2007

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bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Indian Women of Early Mexico (Paperback)

This collection of scholarly essays, mostly relating to Nahuas in the Valley of Mexico but containing some pieces on Mayan-speaking communities in Yucatan, should be very helpful to students, studied and amateur, of the American-Hispano cultures following the Spanish assault on these areas. All the selections relate directly to the lives of women in these areas, as the title would lead you to expect, but readers will find that this approach sheds light on the lives of common people generally and the social structures as seen from the below. Readers do not need to belong to one or another school of women's studies to enjoy the book and profit from it. Writing style is mostly very straightforward and in fact even vividly concrete, with little academiotic harangue.
I got hold of this book in the course of Nahuatl language study, and several of the essays were in fact valuable for this purpose. Generally, the writers assume that readers will pay close attention to Nahuatl, Mayan and Spanish language elements, but it is not necessary to actually have a background in these languages to use the work.

Contents:

Mexica women on the home front : housework and religion in Aztec Mexico / Louise M. Burkhart
Aztec wives / Arthur J. O. Anderson
Indian-Spanish marriages in the first century of the colony / Pedro Carrasco
Gender and social identity : Nahua naming patterns in postconquest Central Mexico / Rebecca Horn
From parallel and equivalent to separate but unequal : Tenochca Mexica women, 1500-1700 / Susan Kellog
Activist or adulteress? The life and struggle of Doña Josefa María of Tepoztlan / Robert Hasket
Matters of life at death : Nahuatl testaments of rural women, 1589-1801 / Stephanie Wood
Mixteca cacicas : status, wealth, and the political accommodation of native elite women in early colonial Oaxaca / Ronald Spore
Women and crime in colonial Oaxaca : evidence of complementary gender roles in Mixtec and Zapotec societies / Lisa Mary Sousa
Women, rebellion, and the moral economy of Maya peasants in colonial Mexico / Kevin Gosner
Work, marriage, and status : Maya women of colonial Yucatan / Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt and Matthew Restall
Double jeopardy : Indian women in Jesuit missions of Nueva Vizcaya / Susan M. Deeds
Women's voices from the frontier : San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in the late eighteenth century / Leslie S. Offutt
Rethinking Malinche / Frances Karttunen.

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