Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 / / Herman L. Bennett
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| Autore: |
Bennett Herman L (Herman Lee), <1964->
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| Titolo: |
Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640 / / Herman L. Bennett
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 972/.00496 |
| Soggetto topico: | Blacks - Mexico - Mexico City - Social conditions |
| Blacks - 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""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 marriage in Latin America and the Caribbean."" -- Judith A. Byfield Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. Africans in Colonial Mexico explores how they learned to make their way i |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Africans in colonial Mexico |
| ISBN: | 9786612072116 |
| 1-282-07211-0 | |
| 0-253-10037-2 | |
| 0-253-10985-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809209103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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