Labor and love in Guatemala [[electronic resource] ] : the eve of independence / / Catherine Komisaruk
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Komisaruk Catherine <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Labor and love in Guatemala [[electronic resource] ] : the eve of independence / / Catherine Komisaruk
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.1097281 |
| Soggetto topico: | Labor - Guatemala - History |
| Slavery - Guatemala - History | |
| Ethnicity - Guatemala - History | |
| Marriage - Guatemala - History | |
| Social change - Guatemala - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Guatemala History To 1821 |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Changing communities, changing identities : Indians and the colonial world -- "That they cease to be truly slaves" : African emancipation and the collapse of slavery -- A quiet revolution : free laborers and entrepreneurs in the Hispanizing city -- Broken rules in love and marriage : households, gender, and sexuality. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspectives on the major social trends that emerged across Spain's American colonies: populations from three continents mingled; native people and Africans became increasingly hispanized; slavery and other forms of labor coercion receded. Komisaruk's analysis shows how these developments were rooted in gendered structures of work, migration, family, and reproduction. The engrossing narrative reconstructs Afro-Guatemalan family histories through slavery and freedom, and tells stories of native working women and men based on their own words. The book takes us into the heart of sweeping historical processes as it depicts the migrations that linked countryside to city, the sweat and filth of domestic labor, the rise of female-headed households, and love as it was actually practiced—amidst remarkable permissiveness by both individuals and the state. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Labor and love in Guatemala |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-8460-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463057503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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