Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico - Hardcover

9780826315717: Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico
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This fascinating examination of bigamy in colonial Mexico reveals for the first time the lives, routines, and networks of ordinary people. The author, drawing from his close reading of Inquisition files, situates these people in the web of daily life: in families as they grow up and in communities as they learn the ways of society. With vivid glimpses of courtship, loss of virginity, marriage, adultery, abusive treatment, and failed marriage, he also follows them in their private lives. In the campaign to root out bigamy, the Inquisition relied on people to denounce one another. How they went about this reveals that gossip and curiosity sustained a surer and swifter system of communications than we might have imagined.

The many pieces of stories recounted here convey emotions and reactions rarely preserved from past centuries. From a young child enduring abuse and rape by relatives to the wily suitor who tricks his future father-in-law with a tale of lost loot stored in a robber's cave, throughout this volume we hear the voices of hitherto invisible people.

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Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.
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Richard Boyer is a professor of history at Simon Fraser University and the author of a book on seventeenth-century Mexico City as well as a number of articles on colonial Mexico.

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  • PublisherUniv of New Mexico Pr
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 0826315712
  • ISBN 13 9780826315717
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages340
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