Indian Women of Early Mexico

by Schroeder, Susan; Wood, Stephanie; Haskett, Robert Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780806129600
• ISBN10: 0806129603
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

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 Dona Josefa Mara 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Mexica Women on the Home Front: Housework and Religion in Aztec Mexico	p. 25
Aztec Wives	p. 55
Indian-Spanish Marriages in the First Century of the Colony	p. 87
Gender and Social Identity: Nahua Naming Patterns in Postconquest Central Mexico	p. 105
From Parallel and Equivalent to Separate but Unequal: Tenochca Mexica Women, 1500-1700	p. 123
Activist or Adulteress? The Life and Struggle of Dona Josefa Maria of Tepoztlan	p. 145
Matters of Life at Death: Nahuatl Testaments of Rural Women, 1589-1801	p. 165
Mixteca Cacicas: Status, Wealth, and the Political Accommodation of Native Elite Women in Early Colonial Oaxaca	p. 185
Women and Crime in Colonial Oaxaca: Evidence of Complementary Gender Roles in Mixtec and Zapotec Societies	p. 199
Women, Rebellion, and the Moral Economy of Maya Peasants in Colonial Mexico	p. 217
Work, Marriage, and Status: Maya Women of Colonial Yucatan	p. 231
Double Jeopardy: Indian Women in Jesuit Missions of Nueva Vizcaya	p. 255
Women's Voices from the Frontier: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in the Late Eighteenth Century	p. 273
Rethinking Malinche	p. 291
Concluding Remarks	p. 313
Notes	p. 331
Bibliography	p. 433
List of Contributors	p. 467
Index	p. 471
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