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Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico
Javier Villa-Flores (Ed.)
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The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial Mexico. It is easy to assume that emotions are a given, unchanging aspect of human psychology. But the emotions we feel reflect the times in which we live. People express themselves within the norms and prescriptions particular to their society, their class, their ethnicity, and other factors. The essays collected here chart daily life through the study of sex and marriage, love, lust and jealousy, civic rituals and preaching, gambling and leisure, prayer and penance, ... Read more
The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial Mexico. It is easy to assume that emotions are a given, unchanging aspect of human psychology. But the emotions we feel reflect the times in which we live. People express themselves within the norms and prescriptions particular to their society, their class, their ethnicity, and other factors. The essays collected here chart daily life through the study of sex and marriage, love, lust and jealousy, civic rituals and preaching, gambling and leisure, prayer and penance, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Dialogos
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826354624
SKU
V9780826354624
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Ref
99-15
About Javier Villa-Flores (Ed.)
Javier Villa-Flores is an associate professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has written Carlo Ginzburg: el historiador como teórico and Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico.
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