Race, caste, and status : Indians in colonial Spanish America
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Race, caste, and status : Indians in colonial Spanish America
University of New Mexico Press, 1999
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Bibliography: p. 137-143
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: pbk ISBN 9780826318947
内容説明
How and with what effect were notions of race and status applied to indigenous peoples in colonial Spanish America? To answer that question, Jackson compares the legal and social distinctions created by Spanish officials to separate the colonisers from the colonised in north-western Mexico, an area on the periphery of Spain's empire, and in Bolivia, a so-called core region with a large sedentary native population. In both regions Spanish elites imposed on native peoples a hierarchical social order based on skin colour, language, dress, residence, and access to land. As fixed as these definitions may have seemed in parish registers, censuses, and tribute records, the actual circumstances of people's lives, whether Indian or mestizo, show that racial classifications were imprecise and subjective. While identity categories had definite importance, particularly for defining who made tribute payments, they were also mutable. Jackson shows that indigenous peoples routinely moved upward to take advantage of opportunities to improve their lives.
This book offers students the first new synthesis in over thirty years of what race meant in colonial Spanish America, and it raises important issues.
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: cloth ISBN 9780826321084
内容説明
How and with what effect were notions of race and status applied to indigenous peoples in colonial Spanish America? To answer that question, Jackson compares the legal and social distinctions created by Spanish officials to separate the colonizers from the colonized in northwestern Mexico, an area on the periphery of Spain's empire, and in Bolivia, a so-called core region with a large sedentary native population. In both regions Spanish elites imposed on native peoples a hierarchical social order based on skin color, language, dress, residence, and access to land. As fixed as these definitions may have seemed in parish registers, censuses, and tribute records, the actual circumstances of people's lives--whether Indian or mestizo--show that racial classifications were imprecise and subjective. While identity categories had definite importance, particularly for defining who made tribute payments, they were also mutable. Jackson shows that indigenous peoples routinely moved upward to take advantage of opportunities to improve their lives.
This book offers students the first new synthesis in over thirty years of what race meant in colonial Spanish America, and it raises important issues about caste, or how and why people knew their relative place in society.
"Provides an important corrective of our understanding of ethnicity and caste society in Latin America."--Erick D. Langer, Georgetown University
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