Colonial Lives Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850

by Boyer, Richard; Spurling, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780195125115
• ISBN10: 0195125118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American colonies during 300 years of Spanish rule, as well as the day-to-day lives of the colonies' inhabitants. Intended to complement textbooks such as Burkholder and Johnson's Colonial Latin America by presenting students with primary sources -- the raw materials on which the facts in other textbooks are based -- this reader strives to illustrate the impact of issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality,culture and religion in the daily lives of both natives and colonists alike. The concerns, struggles and perspectives of the inhabitants of colonial Latin America are reflected in transcripts of civil and criminal court cases, administrative reviews, ecclesiastical investigations, Inquisitiontrials, wills, and letters the editors have included in this reader. Each document is prefaced by an introduction that places it in the social and political context of the period. The book also includes a glossary of terms and lists of suggested further readings. Most uniquely, the book offers helpful thematic cross-referencing sections and an index of themes whichallow instructors to easily adapt the book to their courses and to assign readings according to the criteria of their own specific curriculums.

Table of Contents

Maps and Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Document Themes	xi
Document Genres	xiv
Introduction	1	(5)
Richard Boyer
Geoffrey Spurling
The Indians of Tejupan Want to Raise Silk on Their Own (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1543)	6	(5)
Woodrow Borah
Land Concentration and Environmental Degradation: Town Council Records on Deforestation in Uyumbicho (Quito, 1553-96)	11	(7)
Karen Vieira Powers
The Telling of Tales: A Spanish Priest and His Maya Parishioners (Yucatan, 1573-90)	18	(14)
Matthew Restall
Directorio Para Confesores: ``Lords Who Hold Temporal Government Over Vassals'' (Mexico, 1585)	32	(7)
John F. Schwaller
``In the Service of God, I Order These Temples of Idolatrous Worship Razed to the Ground'': Extirpation of Idolatry and the Search for the Santuario Grande of Iguaque (Colombia, 1595)	39	(15)
J. Michael Francis
Affairs of the Courtroom: Fernando de Medina Confesses to Killing His Wife (Charcas, 1595)	54	(23)
Thomas A. Abercrombie
The Spiritual and Physical Ecstasies of a Sixteenth-Century Beata: Marina de San Miguel Confesses Before the Mexican Inquisition (Mexico, 1598)	77	(24)
Jacqueline Holler
Spaniards in the Nahua Countryside: Dr. Diego de Leon Plaza and Nahuatl Land Sale Documents (Mexico, Early Seventeenth Century)	101	(11)
Rebecca Horn
Under Investigation for the Abominable Sin: Damian de Morales Stands Accused of Attempting to Seduce Anton de Tierra de Congo (Charcas, 1611)	112	(18)
Geoffrey Spurling
``Wife of My Soul and Heart, and All My Solace'': Annulment Suit Between Diego Andres de Arenas and Ysabel Allay Suyo (Huanuco, Peru, 1618)	130	(11)
Nancy van Deusen
Favored Women, Subjected Indians: The Settlement of Pero d'Araujo's Estate in Sao Paulo (1637-40)	141	(14)
Muriel Nazzari
Catarina Maria Complains That Juan Teioa Forcibly Deflowered Her (Mexico, 1693)	155	(11)
Richard Boyer
On Her Deathbed, Maria de la Candelaria Accuses Michaela de Molina of Casting Spells (Guatemala, 1696)	166	(12)
Martha Few
Dance of the People: The Chuchumbe (Mexico, 1766)	178	(7)
Sergio Rivera Ayala
Drinking, Gambling, and Death on a Colonial Hacienda (Quito, 1768)	185	(16)
Ann Twinam
Letters of Insurrection: The Rebellion of the Communities (Charcas, 1781)	201	(15)
S. Elizabeth Penry
Scandal at the Church: Jose de Alfaro Accuses Dona Theresa Bravo and Others of Insulting and Beating His Castiza Wife, Josefa Cadena (Mexico, 1782)	216	(8)
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Don Manuel Valdivieso y Carrion Protests the Marriage of His Daughter to Don Teodoro Jaramillo, a Person of Lower Social Standing (Quito, 1784-85)	224	(12)
Christian Buschges
Permission to Marry: Eighteenth-Century Matrimonial Files (Montevideo, 1786)	236	(13)
Susan Migden Socolow
Felipe Edimboro Sues for Manumission, Don Francisco Xavier Sanchez Contests (Florida, 1794)	249	(20)
Jane Landers
``The Most Vile Atrocities'': Accusations of Slander Against Maria Cofignie, Parda Libre (Louisiana, 1795)	269	(10)
Kimberly S. Hanger
Urban Slavery in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: The Wills of Captain Joaquim Felix de Santana, Colonel Manoel Pereira da Silva, and Rosa Maria da Conceicao (1809, 1814, 1843)	279	(15)
Hendrik Kraay
Meltdown in New Spain: Viceroy Apodaca's Account of the State of the Rebellion (Mexico, 1816)	294	(15)
Christon I. Archer
Alex Taylor del Cid
Glossary	309	(13)
Bibliography	322	(13)
Sources and Credits for Illustrations	335	(1)
Contributors	336	(4)
Index	340