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Caterina Pizzigoni - The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico´s Toluca Valley, 1650-1800 - 9780804781374 - V9780804781374
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The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico´s Toluca Valley, 1650-1800

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Description for The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico´s Toluca Valley, 1650-1800 Hardback. This work of social and cultural history paints a comprehensive picture of indigenous society from the point of view of households throughout a large region of central Mexico, from the middle of the seventeenth century up through the end of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 540.

The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period—as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish. It views the indigenous world from the inside out, focusing first on the household—buildings, lots, household saints—and expanding outward toward the householders and the greater community. The internal focus of this book provides a comprehensive picture of indigenous society, exploring the categories by which people are identified, their interactions, their activities, and the aspects of the local corporations that manifest themselves in household life.

Pizzigoni brings indigenous-language social history ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804781374
SKU
V9780804781374
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Caterina Pizzigoni
Caterina Pizzigoni is Associate Professor in the department of History at Columbia University. She has published Testaments of Toluca (Stanford University Press, 2007), and articles in Ethnohistory and the Colonial Latin American Review, as well as in various anthologies.

Reviews for The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico´s Toluca Valley, 1650-1800
"This remarkable book builds on all that has gone before in studies of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of colonial Mexico, yet it also breaks new ground. If the field has concentrated on the earlier period, this book focuses on the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If much of the prior work has centered on the corporate arena, this book focuses ... Read more

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