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Autore |
Bennett Herman L (Herman Lee), <1964-> |
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Africans in colonial Mexico [[electronic resource] ] : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 / / Herman L. Bennett |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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9786612072116 |
1-282-07211-0 |
0-253-10037-2 |
0-253-10985-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Black people - Mexico - Mexico City - Social conditions |
Black people - Marriage customs and rites - Mexico - Mexico City |
Acculturation - Mexico - History |
Church and state - Mexico - History |
Slavery and the church - Mexico - History |
Ecclesiastical law - Mexico - History |
Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Africans, Absolutism, and Archives; 1 Soiled Gods and the Formation of a Slave Society; 2 The Grand RemedyŽ: Africans and Christian Conjugality; 3 Policing Christians: Persons of African Descent before the Inquisition and Ecclesiastical Courts; 4 Christian Matrimony and the Boundaries of African Self-Fashioning; 5 Between Property and Person: Jurisdictional Conflicts over Marriage; 6 Creoles and Christian Narrat\ives; Postscript; Glossary; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities.... The way in which [Bennett] integrates race, gender, and the tension between canon and secular law into his analysis will inspire re-examination of earlier studies of |
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