Search: 3 results found for ""Author Lyman L. Johnson""

University of New Mexico Press The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America

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£30.05

MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Christians Blasphemers and Witches AfroMexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century

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Focusing on the time period from the intensification of slave importation in 1580 to 1700, this work explores how Afro-Mexicans worked within the limitations imposed on them by the Church and the Spanish Crown in order to develop relationships with peers and superiors, defend themselves against unjust treatment, make money, and gain prestige.

MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Raising an Empire Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America

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Takes you on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. This book challenges the conventional notion that children are invisible in the historical record. It contains essays that present their small subjects - elite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprentices - through their lives and times.